CVE-2014-0315

medium
Published 2014-04-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse cmd.exe file in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .bat or .cmd file, aka "Windows File Handling Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secure@microsoft.com — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-019

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windows-affected
windows windowsr2affected

References

CWEs

CWE-426

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.