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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2015-2535

Active Directory in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1 and Server 2012 Gold and R2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (service outage) by creating multiple machine accounts, aka "Active Directory Denial of Service…

MEDIUM 4.0EPSS 11.5%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.5%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Active Directory in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1 and Server 2012 Gold and R2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (service outage) by creating multiple machine accounts, aka "Active Directory Denial of Service Vulnerability."

CVSS 2.0
4.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
11.53% probability · 96th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-17
Affected
microsoft/windows server 2008 · microsoft/windows server 2012
Source
secure@microsoft.com
EPSS trend
0%8%15%4 November 2026: 11.53%4 November 20264 November 2026

EPSS 11.5% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.