CVE-2008-5724

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

26/12/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security::::::::		3.0.672 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.551:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.560:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.563:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.621:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.642:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.650:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.657:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.667:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.669:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security::::::::		3.0.672 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.551:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.560:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.563:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.621:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.642:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.650:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.657:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.667:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.669:::::::*

CVE-2008-5724

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools