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CVE-2015-6254 PicketLink

Affected softwarePicketLink
Severity6.0 Medium CVSS 2.0
WeaknessCWE-17
Published17 Aug 2015
Updated17 Jun 2026

Description

The (1) Service Provider (SP) and (2) Identity Provider (IdP) in PicketLink before 2.7.0 does not ensure that the Destination attribute in a Response element in a SAML assertion matches the location from which the message was received, which allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2015-0277 per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. Published 11 years ago.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment no assessment published
  • Indexed PoC none indexed
  • EPSS 1.8% chance in 30 days

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

VRT has not found a public code change for this CVE yet.

  • Protection none
  • Action not pursued
  • Review human Researcher
  • Record active
Decided by Manual classification of this CVE in the legacy dataset
Finding A manual classification set this CVE's status to No source fix or exploit.

Affected software and releases

Products and versions

1 product, 1 version entry
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd picketlink picketlink generic ≤ 2.6.0

References

URLTags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0846.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0847.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0848.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0849.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194832
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/PLINK-680

Timeline

Published2015-08-17By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.