{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3238 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2015-3238 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 24 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2015-3238 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2015-3238 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 24 Aug 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3238 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3238/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3238/index.md)","id":"CVE-2015-3238","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3238/index.md","name":"CVE-2015-3238","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3238","GHSA-6r75-hhm5-f689","MGASA-2015-0266","RHSA-2015:1640","SUSE-SU-2017:1398-1","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3238"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux PAM module","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Local attackers can enumerate usernames or cause a denial of service in Linux-PAM when direct password access is 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