CVE-2008-5724
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…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.80%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 43% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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 exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- ESET Smart Security 3.0.672 - 'epfw.sys' Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 7516local, windowspublished 18 Dec 2008Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.80% · top 43% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://www.eset.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4113&Itemid=5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 33210 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.ntinternals.org/ntiadv0807/ntiadv0807.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3456 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32917 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- smart-security-epfw-privilege-escalation(47477) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-5694 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-5724)Record last updated .