Is CVE-2015-8872 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2015-8872 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2015-8872?

CVE-2015-8872 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.2 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2015-8872?

CVE-2015-8872 has an EPSS score of 0.42% (34th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8872?

Upgrade dosfstools on debian 11 to 4.0-1 or later. Fixes are available for 2 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2015-8872

MEDIUM

6.2

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

The set_fat function in fat.c in dosfstools before 4.0 might allow attackers to corrupt a FAT12 filesystem or cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and crash) by writing an odd number of clusters to the third to last entry on a FAT12 filesystem, which triggers an "off-by-two error."

CWE-189

How to fix

Remediation Available

dosfstoolsDebian

Fixed in:4.0-1CVE-2015-8872

dosfstoolsUbuntu

Fixed in:3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1USN-2986-1

Fixed in:3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1USN-2986-1

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 RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.42%probability of exploitation in 30 days

34thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 34% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

github.com

Vendor Advisory2

Other references6

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-189 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2015-1538	High	10.0	99%	-	-
CVE-2006-3747	High	7.6	96%	-	Fix
CVE-2007-0071	High	9.3	93%	-	-
CVE-2015-3829	High	10.0	90%	-	-
CVE-2015-3864	High	10.0	87%	-	-
CVE-2015-1539	High	10.0	86%	-	-

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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.