CVE-2015-5727: Botan Project Botan

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The BER decoder in Botan 1.10.x before 1.10.10 and 1.11.x before 1.11.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via unspecified vectors, related to a length field.

Affected products

• Botan Project Botan: version 1.10.0 only; version 1.10.1 only; version 1.10.2 only; version 1.10.3 only; version 1.10.4 only; version 1.10.5 only; …
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2016-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.