CVE-2015-2507

high
Published 2015-09-09 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

The Adobe Type Manager Library in 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, and Windows 10 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Font Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2512.

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-38279 dos windows_x86 verified text ยท 1 KB
Nils Sommer ยท 2015-09-22

Microsoft Windows Kernel - Use-After-Free with Printer Device Contexts (MS15-097)

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=433

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The attached PoC demonstrates a UAF condition with printer device contexts. The PoC will trigger on Win 7 32-bit with Special Pool enabled.
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Proof of Concept:
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/38279.zip

OS impact

windows Windows Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
r2 Affected โ€”
- Affected โ€”

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.