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CVE-2017-16552

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16552 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting K7 Antivirus Premium before version 15.1.0.53, as well as other K7 Computing security products. It allows a local attacker to write to arbitrary memory locations through specific IOCTL calls. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local user privileges, but potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 16,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

support.k7computing.com / index.php
Vendor Advisory