Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-7995

Title: Xmlsoft Libxslt Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-7995.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 17, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-7995: The xsltStylePreCompute function in preproc.c in libxslt 1.1.28 does not check if the parent node is an element, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML file, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Impacted Vendors

xmlsoft 1

Reference Links

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00003.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00005.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00123.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3605 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/28/4 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77325 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034736 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.386546 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257962 https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=7ca19df892ca22d9314e95d59ce2abdeff46b617 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7995 https://support.apple.com/HT205729 https://support.apple.com/HT205731 https://support.apple.com/HT205732 https://support.apple.com/HT206168 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00003.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00005.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00123.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3605 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/28/4 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77325 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034736 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.386546 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257962 https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=7ca19df892ca22d9314e95d59ce2abdeff46b617 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7995 https://support.apple.com/HT205729 https://support.apple.com/HT205731 https://support.apple.com/HT205732 https://support.apple.com/HT206168

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-2015-7995 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.

November 17, 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:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.