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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-0203

medium Nessus Plugin ID 218417

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - The qpidd broker in Apache Qpid 0.30 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an AMQP message with (1) an invalid range in a sequence set, (2) content- bearing methods other than message-transfer, or (3) a session-gap control before a corresponding session- attach. (CVE-2015-0203)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-0203

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0203

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 218417

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2015_0203.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 8/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0203

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-client-ssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-store, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-ssl, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-cluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-server-rdma, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:qpid-cpp, cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:5::el7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-client-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-server-store, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-ssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-server-ssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-server-xml, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-client-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-server-cluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-rdma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-client, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-server-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:qpid-cpp-client-rdma, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:qpid-cpp-client-rdma

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0203