CVE-2004-1714

CVE-2004-1714 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting BlackICE PC Protection and Server Protection. The software installs critical configuration files with "Everyone Full Control" permissions, allowing any local user to modify them. This misconfiguration can lead to a denial of service (system crash) or unauthorized configuration changes, such as injecting a large firewall rule. With a CVSS score of 7.1 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with low complexity, resulting in high impact to integrity and availability. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog and lacking significant community discussion or media coverage, an exploit demonstrating a local buffer overflow via firewall.ini is publicly available on ExploitDB.