CVE-2015-0006 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0006?

CVE-2015-0006 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 7, published on 13 Jan 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Network Location Awareness (NLA) service in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 does not perform mutual authentication to determine a domain connection, which allows remote attackers to trigger an unintended permissive configuration by spoofing DNS and LDAP responses on a local network, aka "NLA Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0006?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows Rt 8.1, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0006?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-0006 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2015-0006 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0006 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows 7

• CVE-2015-1635 Microsoft HTTP.sys Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2360 Microsoft Win32k Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-6324 Microsoft Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-6332 Microsoft Windows Object Linking & Embedding (OLE) Automation Array Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-4148 Microsoft Windows Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8

All Microsoft Windows 7 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rf6f-3f33-p8cx.