CVE-2014-9642 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the bdagent.sys driver across multiple BullGuard security products, including Antivirus, Internet Security, Premium Protection, and Online Backup versions prior to 15.0.288. An attacker can exploit this flaw by making a crafted IOCTL call (0x0022405c) to write data to arbitrary memory locations. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity due to its local attack vector, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB (EDB-35994), though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.0.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bullguard:bdagent.sys:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 14.1.287CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bullguard:internet_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 14.1.287CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bullguard:online_backup:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 14.1.287CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bullguard:premium_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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