KLA10581 Privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight

Detect date:

05/12/2015

Severity:

Critical

Description:

An unspecified vulnerability was found in Microsoft Silverlight. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can gain privileges. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed Silverlight application.

Affected products:

Microsoft Silverlight 5
Microsoft Silverlight 5 Developer Runtime

Solution:

Install necessary updates from the KB section, that are listed in your Windows Update (Windows Update usually can be accessed from the Control Panel)

Original advisories:

Microsoft advisory
CVE-2015-1715

Impacts:

PE

Related products:

Microsoft Silverlight

CVE-IDS:

CVE-2015-17159.3Critical

Microsoft official advisories:

KB list:

3056819
3058985