CVE-2014-4973

medium
Published 2014-09-23 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.9

Description

The ESET Personal Firewall NDIS filter (EpFwNdis.sys) driver in the Firewall Module Build 1183 (20140214) and earlier in ESET Smart Security and ESET Endpoint Security products 5.0 through 7.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted argument to a 0x830020CC IOCTL call.

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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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
esetsmart_security5.0.94
esetsmart_security5.0.95
esetsmart_security5.2.9
esetsmart_security5.2.15
esetsmart_security6.0.306
esetsmart_security6.0.308
esetsmart_security6.0.314
esetsmart_security6.0.316
esetendpoint_security5.0.2113
esetendpoint_security5.0.2122
esetendpoint_security5.0.2126
esetendpoint_security5.0.2214
esetendpoint_security5.0.2225
esetendpoint_security5.0.2228

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.