CVE-2017-16550 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting K7 Antivirus Premium versions prior to 15.1.0.53, as well as other K7 Computing security products. An attacker can exploit this by making specific IOCTL calls to write to arbitrary memory locations, leading to elevated privileges. Rated 7.8 HIGH on CVSS, this vulnerability requires local access and has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though it does not require user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 15.1.0.53CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k7computing:antivirus:*:*:*:*:premium:*:*:* | ||
< 15.1.0308CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k7computing:antivirus:*:*:*:*:plus:*:*:* | ||
< 14.2.0137CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k7computing:endpoint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 15.1.0297CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k7computing:internet_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 15.1.0324CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k7computing:total_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
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.