Is CVE-2015-5260 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2015-5260 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2015-5260?

CVE-2015-5260 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2015-5260?

CVE-2015-5260 has an EPSS score of 0.57% (43th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5260?

Upgrade spice on debian 11 to 0.12.5-1.3 or later. Fixes are available for 3 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2015-5260

HIGH

7.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surface_id parameter.

CWE-119Buffer Overflow

How to fix

Remediation Available

spiceDebian

Fixed in:0.12.5-1.3CVE-2015-5260

libspice-server1Ubuntu

Fixed in:0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.2USN-2766-1

spiceUbuntu

Fixed in:0.12.4-0nocelt2ubuntu1.2USN-2766-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.57%probability of exploitation in 30 days

43rdpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 43% of all known CVEs.

References

Other references10

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-119 (Buffer Overflow) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2023-4966	Critical	9.4	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2017-11882	High	7.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2020-0796	Critical	10.0	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2008-4250	Critical	9.8	99%	KEV	-
CVE-2017-15944	Critical	9.8	98%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2015-0014	High	10.0	97%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-05-06.