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CVE-2015-2361

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-07-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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."

Affected products

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

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032897
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-068
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032897
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-068

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