# CVE-2016-15024: doomsider shadow denial of service

> A local attacker can cause a denial of service in the shadow password suite, requiring high complexity and permissions.

- **Severity:** Low 2.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 19 Feb 2023
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-p65g-hv37-ghrh

## What is CVE-2016-15024?

CVE-2016-15024 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in doomsider shadow, published on 19 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability was found in doomsider shadow. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to denial of service. Attacking locally is a requirement. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Continious delivery with rolling releases is used by this product. Therefore, no version details of affected nor updated releases are available. The patch is identified as 3332c5ba9ec3014ddc74e2147190a050eee97bc0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-221478 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-404 (Improper Resource Shutdown or Release)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-15024?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Doomsider Shadow Project Doomsider Shadow.

## How do I fix CVE-2016-15024?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-15024 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2016-15024 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-15024 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2016-15024 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2016-15024 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in doomsider shadow, published on 19 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-15024 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: doomsider shadow. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-15024/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-15024/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-15024
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-15024
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-15024

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-15024/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.