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CVE-2015-1701
Critical
91.4
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
Win32k.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP2, and Server 2008 SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, as exploited in the wild in April 2015, aka "Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 55.92%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Mar 2022
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- Not mapped
- Published
- 21 Apr 2015
- Last modified 14 Aug 2026
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Data as of 8 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time