CVE-2015-5522

medium
Published 2015-08-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ParseValue function in lexer.c in tidy before 4.9.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors involving a command character in an href.

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.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
macos macosaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
htacgtidy{"endIncluding":"4.9.30"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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