CVE-2009-2450
The OAmon.sys kernel driver 3.1.0.0 and earlier in Tall Emu Online Armor Personal Firewall AV+ before 3.5.0.12, and Personal Firewall 3.5…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 0.77%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 44% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The OAmon.sys kernel driver 3.1.0.0 and earlier in Tall Emu Online Armor Personal Firewall AV+ before 3.5.0.12, and Personal Firewall 3.5 before 3.5.0.14, allows local users to gain privileges via crafted METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL requests to \Device\OAmon containing arbitrary kernel addresses, as demonstrated using the 0x830020C3 IOCTL.
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. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Online Armor < 3.5.0.12 - 'OAmon.sys' Local Privilege Escalation (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 8875local, windowspublished 4 Jun 2009Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 8875 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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)
- 0.77% · top 44% of all CVEs (11 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
References5
- onlinearmor-pf-oamon-privilege-escalation(50960) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 35227 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 8875 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2009-OAmon_Exp.zip (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.ntinternals.org/ntiadv0806/ntiadv0806.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2009-2445 (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-2009-2450)Record last updated .