CVE-2015-2423
Description
Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, Windows 10, Excel 2007 SP3, PowerPoint 2007 SP3, Visio 2007 SP3, Word 2007 SP3, Office 2010 SP2, Excel 2010 SP2, PowerPoint 2010 SP2, Visio 2010 SP2, Word 2010 SP2, Excel 2013 SP1, PowerPoint 2013 SP1, Visio 2013 SP1, Word 2013 SP1, Excel 2013 RT SP1, PowerPoint 2013 RT SP1, Visio 2013 RT SP1, Word 2013 RT SP1, and Internet Explorer 7 through 11 allow remote attackers to gain privileges and obtain sensitive information via a crafted command-line parameter to an Office application or Notepad, as demonstrated by a transition from Low Integrity to Medium Integrity, aka "Unsafe Command Line Parameter Passing Vulnerability."
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| windows | - | affected | |
| windows | r2 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | excel | 2007 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2010 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2013 | |
| microsoft | office | 2010 | |
| microsoft | powerpoint | 2007 | |
| microsoft | powerpoint | 2010 | |
| microsoft | powerpoint | 2013 | |
| microsoft | visio | 2007 | |
| microsoft | visio | 2010 | |
| microsoft | visio | 2013 | |
| microsoft | visio | 2016 | |
| microsoft | word | 2007 | |
| microsoft | word | 2010 | |
| microsoft | word | 2013 | |
| microsoft | word | 2016 | |
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 7 | |
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 8 | |
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 9 | |
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 10 | |
| microsoft | internet_explorer | 11 | |
References
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033237
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033239
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033248
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-079
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-081
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-088
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033237
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033239
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033248
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-079
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-081
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-088
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.