Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-7558

Title: Gnome Librsvg Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-7558.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date May 20, 2016

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-7558: librsvg before 2.40.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop, stack consumption, and application crash) via cyclic references in an SVG document.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3584 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/30/3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268243 https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/?id=a51919f7e1ca9c535390a746fbf6e28c8402dc61 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3584 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/21/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/30/3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1268243 https://git.gnome.org/browse/librsvg/commit/?id=a51919f7e1ca9c535390a746fbf6e28c8402dc61

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-7558 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.

May 20, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.