VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-0079

high
Published 2015-03-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

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."

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/2015/ms15-030

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
windows windows-affected
windows windowsr2affected

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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