Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5289

Title: Postgresql Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5289.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Oct 26, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5289: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in json parsing in PostgreSQL before 9.3.x before 9.3.10 and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via unspecified vectors, which are not properly handled in (1) json or (2) jsonb values.

Impacted Vendors

postgresql 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=08fa47c4850cea32c3116665975bca219fbf2fe6 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172316.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169094.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00033.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3374 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/ http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-10.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-5.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77048 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033775 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2772-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33 http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=08fa47c4850cea32c3116665975bca219fbf2fe6 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172316.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169094.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00016.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00033.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3374 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/ http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-10.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-5.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77048 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033775 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2772-1 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-33

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-5289 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 26, 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:P/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.