CVE-2015-1515

SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2015-1515. PoCs published by Parvez Anwar.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a privilege escalation vulnerability in SoftSphere DefenseWall FW/IPS (CVE-2015-1515) by leveraging arbitrary write to overwrite the HalDispatchTable in the kernel, achieving token stealing for SYSTEM privileges. It includes shellcode for token manipulation and spawns a command shell upon successful exploitation.

Description

The dwall.sys driver in SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 allows local users to write data to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted 0x00222000, 0x00222004, 0x00222008, 0x0022200c, or 0x00222010 IOCTL call.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Parvez Anwar · clocalwindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36052

This exploit targets a privilege escalation vulnerability in SoftSphere DefenseWall FW/IPS (CVE-2015-1515) by leveraging arbitrary write to overwrite the HalDispatchTable in the kernel, achieving token stealing for SYSTEM privileges. It includes shellcode for token manipulation and spawns a command shell upon successful exploitation.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Lpe
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: SoftSphere DefenseWall FW/IPS 3.24 with dwall.sys driver 3.2.3.0
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Windows XP SP3 (32-bit) · Presence of vulnerable dwall.sys driver
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36052
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/117996

Scores

EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 69.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (1)
softsphere/defensewall_personal_firewall 3.24
Published Feb 19, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026