CVE-2015-2434: Microsoft XML Core Services

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 15.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 and 5.0 supports SSL 2.0, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by sniffing the network and conducting a decryption attack, aka "MSXML Information Disclosure Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2471.

Affected products

• Microsoft XML Core Services: version 3.0 only; version 5.0 only

Published 2015-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.