Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8373

Title: Isc Kea Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8373.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Dec 22, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.06%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8373: The kea-dhcp4 and kea-dhcp6 servers 0.9.2 and 1.0.0-beta in ISC Kea, when certain debugging settings are used, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a malformed packet.

Impacted Vendors

isc 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175218.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175337.html https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01318 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175218.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175337.html https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01318

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-8373 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.

December 22, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity HIGH

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.