CVE-2015-4902 — LEAP
MEDIUMCVE-2015-4902 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-284 vulnerability in opensuse leap. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-03) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u101, 7u85, and 8u60 allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to Deployment.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-03-03. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-03-24.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2015-4902.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2015-4902 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 10–50% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u101, 7u85, and 8u60 allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to Deployment.
Affected Products
leapopensuseopensuseopensusejdkoraclejreoracleenterprise linux desktopredhatenterprise linux eusredhatResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every opensuse leap deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2015-4902 yet — track the opensuse leap advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.91-1jpp.1.el5_11 | RHSA-2015:1927 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.105-1jpp.2.el5_11 | RHSA-2015:1928 |
| Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | java-1.8.0-oracle-1:1.8.0.65-1jpp.3.el6_7 | RHSA-2015:1926 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary | java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.9.20-1jpp.1.el5 | RHSA-2015:2507 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary | java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.15-1jpp.1.el5 | RHSA-2015:2508 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary | java-1.5.0-ibm-1:1.5.0.16.14-1jpp.1.el5 | RHSA-2015:2518 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary | java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.3.20-1jpp.1.el6_7 | RHSA-2015:2506 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Supplementary | java-1.8.0-ibm-1:1.8.0.2.0-1jpp.1.el7 | RHSA-2015:2509 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2015-4902 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.