VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-5724

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.80%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-12-26
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

The Personal Firewall driver (aka epfw.sys) 3.0.672.0 and earlier in ESET Smart Security 3.0.672 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted IRP in a certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL request to \Device\Epfw that overwrites portions of memory.

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