CVE-2015-0006The Network Location Awareness (NLA) service in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1,…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 11.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 56 days later
· 56 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.1 | AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.6% · top 3.9% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References6
- 62184 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MS15-005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 71930 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- win-ms15kb3022777-update(99522) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 62098 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ms-nla-cve20150006-security-bypass(99521) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0044 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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