CVE-2015-2291

CRITICALNVD 7.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-02-10), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2015-2389 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictMitigate nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at every mission impact level
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 16%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

(1) IQVW32.sys before 1.3.1.0 and (2) IQVW64.sys before 1.3.1.0 in the Intel Ethernet diagnostics driver for Windows allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via a crafted (a) 0x80862013, (b) 0x8086200B, (c) 0x8086200F, or (d) 0x80862007 IOCTL call.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
75
EG Risk 75/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
16%
EPSS %ILE
96th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 7.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
7.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
16% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00051.html · https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2291

Published

August 9, 2017

Last Modified

October 1, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-2291
Web page

Intel Network Adapter Diagnostic Driver - IOCTL Handling - Windows dos Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36392/
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79623

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 133× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,156 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,056 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 17:32 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 17:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  4. 2026-10-31 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  5. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 16% · 96th percentile
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  7. 2026-10-30 18:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  8. 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 16% · 96th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-29 19:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  11. 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 16% · 96th percentile
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  13. 2026-10-28 20:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  16. 2026-10-27 21:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  17. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 16% · 96th percentile
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  19. 2026-10-26 21:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  21. 2026-10-25 22:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  1. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 9.0% · 95th percentile
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  3. 2026-10-24 00:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  6. 2026-10-23 00:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  9. 2026-10-22 01:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  12. 2026-10-21 02:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  15. 2026-10-20 02:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  18. 2026-10-19 03:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  21. 2026-10-18 04:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  24. 2026-10-17 04:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  35. 2026-10-13 07:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  54. 2026-10-10 16:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  62. 2026-10-09 16:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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  70. 2026-10-08 15:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-4w4w-866c-5vgg · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
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Publicly available exploits

(5 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry, 4 GitHub PoCs). No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.

  • GitHub PoCethanedits/iqvw64e-privilege-escalation
    Published Jan 25, 2026

    CVE-2015-2291 Local Privilege Escalation PoC

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCpaysonism/CVE-2015-2291-Spoofer-Analysis
    Published Jan 18, 2026

    Overview of a application that I reversed using the CVE-2015-2291 exploit from the Intel Ethernet Diagnostics Driver (iQVW32.sys) for memory manipulation used in hwid spoofing.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCgmh5225/CVE-2015-2291
    Published Jun 28, 2022

    (1) IQVW32.sys before 1.3.1.0 and (2) IQVW64.sys before 1.3.1.0 in the Intel Ethernet diagnostics driver for Windows allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via a crafted (a) 0x80862013, (b) 0x8086200B, (c) 0x8086200F, or (d) 0x80862007 IOCTL call.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCTare05/Intel-CVE-2015-2291
    Published Feb 22, 2020

    PoC exploit for CVE-2015-2291

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-36392
    Published Mar 14, 2015

    Intel Network Adapter Diagnostic Driver - IOCTL Handling

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2015-2291?
CVE-2015-2291 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 9, 2017. (1) IQVW32.sys before 1.3.1.0 and (2) IQVW64.sys before 1.3.1.0 in the Intel Ethernet diagnostics driver for Windows allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via a crafted (a) 0x80862013, (b) 0x8086200B, (c) 0x8086200F, or (d)…
When was CVE-2015-2291 made public?
CVE-2015-2291 was made public on March 14, 2015: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 9, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 1, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2015-2291 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2015-2291 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on February 10, 2023, affecting Intel Ethernet Diagnostics Driver for Windows. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2015-2291?
CVE-2015-2291 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2015-2291?
CVE-2015-2291 affects Intel Ethernet Diagnostics Driver for Windows.
How do I remediate CVE-2015-2291?
A fix for CVE-2015-2291 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

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