CVE-2017-16555 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting K7 Antivirus Premium before version 15.1.0.53, as well as several other K7 Computing security products. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.0) allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by manipulating memory and sending a specific IOCTL. While the attack complexity is high, successful exploitation could lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| 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:H/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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.