K7 Antivirus up to 15.1 IOCTL Call access control

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A vulnerability was found in K7 Antivirus up to 15.1 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component IOCTL Call Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

K7 Antivirus Premium before 15.1.0.53 allows local users to write to arbitrary memory locations, and consequently gain privileges, via a specific set of IOCTL calls.

The bug was discovered 01/15/2018. The weakness was shared 01/16/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at support.k7computing.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-16549 since 11/06/2017. Local access is required to approach this attack. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 15.1.0.53 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries 111915, 111917 and 111919 are related to this item.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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NVD Base Score: 7.8
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
ATT&CK: T1068

Local: Yes
Remote: No

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Antivirus 15.1.0.53

Timelineinfo

11/06/2017 🔍
01/15/2018 +70 days 🔍
01/16/2018 +1 days 🔍
01/16/2018 +0 days 🔍
01/17/2018 +1 days 🔍
12/23/2019 +705 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: support.k7computing.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-16549 (🔍)
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Entryinfo

Created: 01/17/2018 07:53
Updated: 12/23/2019 16:59
Changes: 01/17/2018 07:53 (61), 12/23/2019 16:59 (5)
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