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CVE-2015-1748

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1748 describes an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7 through 11. This flaw allows remote attackers to gain elevated privileges by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted website. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a medium severity, indicating that an attacker could achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with moderate attack complexity. Despite its potential impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available, nor has it garnered significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:11:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
15.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1520 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-056
securityfocus.com / bid/74997
securitytracker.com / id/1032521
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-15-251