CVE-2015-1701

Exploitation

Exploited in the wild. Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-03-03. Federal remediation due 2022-03-24. Known ransomware campaign use: reported by CISA.

SSVC decision

• ExploitationactiveCISA reports credible evidence of active exploitation.
• AutomatablenoAt least one step from reconnaissance to exploitation cannot be reliably automated.
• Technical ImpacttotalSuccessful exploitation gives total control of the vulnerable component.

CISA publishes the decision points, not a final SSVC decision. The decision also depends on mission and well-being impact, which is a property of your deployment rather than of the vulnerability.

EPSS probability

55.92% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 98.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Analyzed. NVD last modified this record on 2026-08-14.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2015-04-21 10:00Z11 YR AGO

Last updated

2026-08-14 03:55Z2 MO AGO

Reserved

2015-02-17

Assigning CNA

microsoft

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

High (CVSS 7.8)

CNA CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWE assigned

Data version

5.2

Document digest

6673749391b96e8c2183218c69d220cc87feae6f0586e2bfa88a2e7228f6b269

• twitter.comhttp://twitter.com/symantec/statuses/590208710527549440x_refsource_MISC
• www.exploit-db.com37049https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37049/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• www.securityfocus.com74245http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74245vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• docs.microsoft.comMS15-051https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-051vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
• www.exploit-db.com37367https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37367/exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
• www.fireeye.comhttps://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/04/probable_apt28_useo.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• www.securitytracker.com1032155http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032155vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• seclists.org20200514 KL-001-2020-002 : Cellebrite Restricted Desktop Escape and Escalation of User Privilegehttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/May/34mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
• www.cisa.govhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-1701government-resource