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CVE-2015-2023

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-2023 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in IBM i Access 7.1 on Windows, impacting both IBM and Microsoft Windows environments. This flaw allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, as reflected by its CVSS v3 score of 8.8 (High). While not actively exploited in the wild or on CISA's KEV catalog, a public exploit (EDB-38751) exists, and the vulnerability has seen minimal community discussion. Despite its age, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 91/100 indicates continued relevance.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:i_access:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.0
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-38751 · Nov 18, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exploit-db.com / exploits/38751
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Vendor Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss