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CVE-2017-16551

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16551 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. It carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.0 (High), indicating that an attacker with low privileges and high attack complexity can achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.0HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
18.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 1,516 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

support.k7computing.com / index.php
Vendor Advisory