CVE-2015-2362

Microsoft Windows 8 - Security Feature Bypass

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 does not properly initialize guest OS system data structures, which allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging guest OS privileges, aka "Hyper-V System Data Structure Vulnerability."

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032897

Scores

EPSS 0.0162
EPSS Percentile 73.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-254
Status published
Products (6)
microsoft/windows_8 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_8.1
microsoft/windows_server_2008
microsoft/windows_server_2008 r2 sp1
microsoft/windows_server_2012
microsoft/windows_server_2012 r2 (3 CPE variants)
Published Jul 14, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026