CVE-2014-9643

high
Published 2015-02-06 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

K7Sentry.sys in K7 Computing Ultimate Security, Anti-Virus Plus, and Total Security before 14.2.0.253 allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a crafted 0x95002570, 0x95002574, 0x95002580, 0x950025a8, 0x950025ac, or 0x950025c8 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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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-35992 local windows
Parvez Anwar ยท 2015-02-04

K7 Computing (Multiple Products) - Arbitrary Write Privilege Escalation

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
k7computingk7sentry.sys{"endIncluding":"12.8.0.117"}
k7computinganti-virus_plus{"endIncluding":"14.2.0.252"}
k7computingtotal_security{"endIncluding":"14.2.0.252"}
k7computingultimate_security{"endIncluding":"14.2.0.252"}

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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