CVE-2015-1515 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the dwall.sys driver of SoftSphere DefenseWall Personal Firewall 3.24. Attackers can exploit this by crafting specific IOCTL calls (0x00222000, 0x00222004, 0x00222008, 0x0022200c, or 0x00222010) to write data to arbitrary memory locations, thereby gaining elevated privileges. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity with local access, low attack complexity, and complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.24CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:softsphere:defensewall_personal_firewall:3.24:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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