CVE-2017-14969 describes an Arbitrary Write vulnerability in the ntguard.sys driver of IKARUS anti.virus versions prior to 2.16.18, stemming from insufficient input validation for IOCtl 0x83000084. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.0 score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a local attacker with low privileges could achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.16.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ikarussecurity:anti.virus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.