CVE-2015-3999

low
Published 2015-05-20 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
VIR risk
2.1

Description

Piriform CCleaner 3.26.0.1988 through 5.02.5101 writes the filenames to disk when overwriting files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by searching unallocated disk space.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
piriformccleaner3.26.1888
piriformccleaner3.27.1900
piriformccleaner3.28.1913
piriformccleaner4.00.4064
piriformccleaner4.01.4093
piriformccleaner4.02.4115
piriformccleaner4.03.4151
piriformccleaner4.04.4197
piriformccleaner4.05.4250
piriformccleaner4.06.4324
piriformccleaner4.07.4369
piriformccleaner4.08.4428
piriformccleaner4.09.4471
piriformccleaner4.10.4570
piriformccleaner4.11.4619
piriformccleaner4.12.4657
piriformccleaner4.13.4693
piriformccleaner4.14.4707
piriformccleaner4.15.4725
piriformccleaner4.16.4763
piriformccleaner4.17.4808
piriformccleaner4.18.4844
piriformccleaner4.19.4867
piriformccleaner5.00.5050
piriformccleaner5.01.5075
piriformccleaner5.02.5101

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.