Description
Comodo Firewall Pro (CFP) (formerly Comodo Personal Firewall) 2.4.18.184 and earlier allows local users to bypass driver protections on the HKLM\SYSTEM\Software\Comodo\Personal Firewall registry key by guessing the name of a named pipe under \Device\NamedPipe\OLE and attempting to open it multiple times.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4.x - Local Protection Mechanism Bypass EDB-29695 · local · Mar 1, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 22775 vdb-entry
- comodofirewallpro-pipe-security-bypass(32771) vdb-entry
- 2388 third-party-advisory
- 20070301 Comodo Bypassing settings protection using magic pipe Vulnerability mailing-list
- http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/Comodo-Bypassing-settings-protection-using-magic-pipe.php
- 34957 vdb-entry