CVE-2015-0079: Microsoft Windows 7

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 16.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and RDP outage) by establishing many RDP sessions that do not properly free allocated memory, aka "Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Denial of Service Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows 8: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows 8.1: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012: affected versions not specified; version r2 only

Published 2015-03-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.