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critical 9.3

CVE-2015-2456 in the critical feed json

Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Wi…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-2549

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
35.6%
EPSS 35.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, Windows 10, Office 2007 SP3 and 2010 SP2, Live Meeting 2007 Console, Lync 2010, Lync 2010 Attendee, Lync 2013 SP1, Lync Basic 2013 SP1, Silverlight before 5.1.40728, and .NET Framework 3.0 SP2, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, and 4.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TrueType font, aka "TrueType Font Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2455.

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-37918)

Exploit prediction

35.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-37918 Microsoft Windows - 'win32k.sys' TTF Font Processing win32k!scl_ApplyTranslation Pool-Based Buffer Overflow dos, 2015-08-21

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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