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CVE-2015-0079

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-03-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and RDP outage) by establishing many RDP sessions that do not properly free allocated memory, aka "Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Denial of Service Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 7: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 8: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 8.1: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: r2

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031892
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-030
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031892
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-030

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