Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the way IOBit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 14.2.0.220 driver handles Privileged I/O write requests. During IOCTL 0x9c40a0d8, the first dword passed in the input buffer is the device port to write to and the byte at offset 4 is the value to write via the OUT instruction. The OUT instruction can write one byte to the given I/O device port, potentially leading to escalated privileges of unprivileged users.
Published: 2021-07-07
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-8959 A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the way IOBit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 14.2.0.220 driver handles Privileged I/O write requests. During IOCTL 0x9c40a0d8, the first dword passed in the input buffer is the device port to write to and the byte at offset 4 is the value to write via the OUT instruction. The OUT instruction can write one byte to the given I/O device port, potentially leading to escalated privileges of unprivileged users.
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Iobit Advanced Systemcare Ultimate
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:23:29.434Z

Reserved: 2021-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-21787

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-07-07T17:15:07.957

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:48:58.250

Link: CVE-2021-21787

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