CVE-2015-6166: microsoft silverlight

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-6166 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in microsoft silverlight. EPSS estimates a 14.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 09-12-2015
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Microsoft Silverlight 5 before 5.1.41105.00 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write access) via unspecified open and close requests, aka "Microsoft Silverlight RCE Vulnerability."

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.