CVE-2015-1515

high

Published 2015-02-19 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.2

Description

The dwall.sys driver in SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24 allows local users to write data to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted 0x00222000, 0x00222004, 0x00222008, 0x0022200c, or 0x00222010 IOCTL call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36052 local windows

Parvez Anwar · 2015-02-11

SoftSphere DefenseWall FW/IPS 3.24 - Local Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
softsphere	defensewall_personal_firewall	`3.24`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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