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critical 9.3

CVE-2015-2482 in the critical feed json

The Microsoft (1) VBScript 5.7 and 5.8 and (2) JScript 5.7 and 5.8 engines, as used in Internet Explorer 8 through 11 and other products, a…

published 2015-10-14 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-2575

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
32.3%
EPSS 32.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Microsoft (1) VBScript 5.7 and 5.8 and (2) JScript 5.7 and 5.8 engines, as used in Internet Explorer 8 through 11 and other products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted replace operation with a JavaScript regular expression, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-40798)

Exploit prediction

32.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-40798 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 - jscript 'Reg­Exp­Base::FBad­Header' Use-After-Free (MS15-018) dos, 2016-11-21

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-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.