Is CVE-2015-5261 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2015-5261 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2015-5261?

CVE-2015-5261 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.1 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2015-5261?

CVE-2015-5261 has an EPSS score of 0.49% (38th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5261?

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-2015-5261

HIGH

7.1

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via guest QXL commands related to surface creation.

CWE-119Buffer Overflow

How to fix

Remediation Available

spiceDebian

Fixed in:0.12.5-1.3CVE-2015-5261

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

AvailabilityNone

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.49%probability of exploitation in 30 days

38thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 38% 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.