{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3256 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2015-3256 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 26 Oct 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2015-3256 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2015-3256 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 26 Oct 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3256 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Opensuse Opensuse. 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-2015-3256/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3256/index.md)","id":"CVE-2015-3256","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3256/index.md","name":"CVE-2015-3256","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-779g-mjcq-vffm","RHSA-2016:0189"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux authorization framework","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can exploit memory corruption in PolicyKit's JavaScript rule evaluation to crash the daemon or potentially escalate privileges.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"opensuse","vendor":"opensuse"},{"product":"polkit","vendor":"polkit_project"}],"cvss":{"score":4.6,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-264","name":null}],"description":"PolicyKit (aka polkit) before 0.113 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and polkitd daemon crash) and possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to \"javascript rule evaluation.\"","ecosystems":["Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client","Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode","Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server","Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2026-05-12","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":0,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2026-05-12T15:00:59Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/puglia-ryan/S-V-Project-Implementation-of-CVE-2015-3256","stars":0,"title":null}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-3256","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"opensuse:opensuse","products":["opensuse:opensuse"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2015"},"n_packages":16,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"zend-diactoros Cross-site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2015-3257"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-devel","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-devel","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::client","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-docs","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-docs","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-devel","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-devel","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::computenode","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-docs","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-docs","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-devel","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-devel","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-docs","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-docs","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-devel","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-devel","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation","fixed":["0:0.112-6.el7_2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"polkit-docs","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/polkit-docs","source":"RHSA-2016:0189"}],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-3255"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2015-10-26","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-5957","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2015-09-28"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-0491","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2015-04-16"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2388","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2008-06-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2010-1866","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2010-05-07"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Other in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-0492","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2015-04-16"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-0158","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-04-10"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-4343","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-05-22"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"Red Hat","prefix":"RHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can exploit memory corruption in PolicyKit's JavaScript rule evaluation to crash the daemon or potentially escalate privileges.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-3256/"}