Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8659

Title: Nghttp2 Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8659.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jan 12, 2016

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.19%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8659: The idle stream handling in nghttp2 before 1.6.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, aka a heap-use-after-free bug.

Impacted Vendors

nghttp2 1

Reference Links

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175085.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175423.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/6 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035353 https://nghttp2.org/blog/2015/12/23/nghttp2-v1-6-0/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-06 https://support.apple.com/HT206166 https://support.apple.com/HT206167 https://support.apple.com/HT206168 https://support.apple.com/HT206169 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175085.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175423.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/23/6 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035353 https://nghttp2.org/blog/2015/12/23/nghttp2-v1-6-0/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-06 https://support.apple.com/HT206166 https://support.apple.com/HT206167 https://support.apple.com/HT206168 https://support.apple.com/HT206169

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

10.0

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-8659 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.

January 12, 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:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.