CVE-2015-2509
Windows Media Center in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 71.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Windows Media Center in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Media Center link (mcl) file, aka "Windows Media Center RCE Vulnerability."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- MS15-100 Microsoft Windows Media Center MCL Vulnerability (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/ms15_100_mcl_exeRank excellentdisclosed 8 Sept 2015
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Microsoft Windows Media Center - MCL (MS15-100) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 38195remote, windowspublished 15 Sept 2015Verified
- Microsoft Windows Media Center - Command Execution (MS15-100) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 38151remote, windowspublished 11 Sept 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 38195 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 38151 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 71.0% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 76594 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/windows/fileformat/ms15_100_mcl_exe (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MS15-100 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 38195 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 1033499 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 38151 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_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-2015-2602 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-2509)Record last updated .