CVE-2008-5724

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5724
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-26 17:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.2 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.551 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.560 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.563 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.621 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.642 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.650 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.657 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.667 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security 3.0.669 All All All
Application Eset Smart Security All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.eset.com/joomla/index.php af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.eset.com
NT Internals - ESET Smart Security (epfw.sys) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ntinternals.org
ESET Smart Security 'epfw.sys' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
ESET Smart Security "epfw.sys" IOCTL Handler Privilege Escalation - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
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