Description
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.
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
- ESET Smart Security 3.0.672 - 'epfw.sys' Local Privilege Escalation EDB-7516 · local · Dec 18, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://www.eset.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4113&Itemid=5
- 33210 third-party-advisory
- http://www.ntinternals.org/ntiadv0807/ntiadv0807.html
- ADV-2008-3456 vdb-entry
- 32917 vdb-entry
- smart-security-epfw-privilege-escalation(47477) vdb-entry