CVE-2008-5724
HIGH · CVSS 7.2EPSS 0.8%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.8% (57th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-5694)
- Published
- December 26, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-5694 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
- eset / smart security
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33210(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.eset.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4113&Itemid=5
- http://www.ntinternals.org/ntiadv0807/ntiadv0807.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32917
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3456
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47477
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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