CVE-2018-6525 describes a denial of service vulnerability in nProtect AVS V4.0 before 4.0.0.39, where the TKFsAv.SYS driver fails to validate input from IOCtl 0x220458. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and potentially achieve other unspecified impacts. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires local access and low privileges, but has high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.0, < 4.0.0.39CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:inca:nprotect_avs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.