Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-4717

Title: Owncloud Owncloud Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-4717.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Oct 21, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.69%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-4717: The filename sanitization component in ownCloud Server before 6.0.8, 7.0.x before 7.0.6, and 8.0.x before 8.0.4 does not properly handle $_GET parameters cast by PHP to an array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and log file consumption) via crafted endpoint file names.

Impacted Vendors

owncloud 2

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3373 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76161 https://owncloud.org/security/advisory/?id=oc-sa-2015-007 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3373 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76161 https://owncloud.org/security/advisory/?id=oc-sa-2015-007

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-4717 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 21, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.