CVE-2015-6816
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
ganglia-web before 3.7.1 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Fedora Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | Affected | — |
| 22 | Affected | — |
| 21 | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.7.5+debian-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.6.0-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.7.5+debian-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.6.0-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.6.0-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ganglia | ganglia-web | {"endIncluding":"3.7.0"} | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170362.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169641.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169788.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/05/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92146
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260562
- https://github.com/ganglia/ganglia-web/issues/267
- https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/ganglia-webfrontend/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6816
CWEs
CWE-287
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.