01 Record
CVE-2008-5724
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.80% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 56.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-12-26 17:08Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 11:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-12-26
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 819039dd96a47f955f0bbc0b5f58e0f1c5187994081a9a3f1758bb8a211b610f
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.eset.comhttp://www.eset.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4113&Itemid=5
- secunia.com33210http://secunia.com/advisories/33210
- www.ntinternals.orghttp://www.ntinternals.org/ntiadv0807/ntiadv0807.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-3456http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3456
- www.securityfocus.com32917http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32917
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comsmart-security-epfw-privilege-escalation(47477)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47477