CVE-2014-1767

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Published 2014-07-08 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.2

Description

Double free vulnerability in the Ancillary Function Driver (AFD) in afd.sys in the kernel-mode drivers in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Ancillary Function Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39446 local windows_x86

Rick Larabee · 2016-02-15

Microsoft Windows 7 (x86) - 'afd.sys' Dangling Pointer Privilege Escalation (MS14-040)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-39525 local windows_x86-64

Rick Larabee · 2016-03-07

Microsoft Windows 7 (x64) - 'afd.sys' Dangling Pointer Privilege Escalation (MS14-040)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Windows Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
r2	Affected	—
-	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-415

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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