CVE-2015-2361

HighCVSS 7.2/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 does not properly initialize guest OS system data structures, which allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) by leveraging guest OS privileges, aka "Hyper-V Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.2/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Jul 14, 2015
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2015-2361: High severity, CVSS 7.2 | Vulnix