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CVE-2014-4973

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4973 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting ESET Smart Security and ESET Endpoint Security products (versions 5.0-7.0). An attacker can exploit a flaw in the EpFwNdis.sys driver by crafting a specific argument to an IOCTL call, gaining elevated privileges on the system. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and moderate attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.94CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:5.0.94:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.95CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:5.0.95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:5.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:5.2.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.306CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:6.0.306:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0131 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/52
portcullis-security.com / security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-4973
Exploit