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CVE-2018-6525

23
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.0, < 4.0.0.39CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:inca:nprotect_avs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 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

inca.co.kr / include_file/pdf_down/nProtect%20AVS%20V4%20Vulnerability%20Response%20Release%20Notes.pdf
Vendor Advisory
github.com / ZhiyuanWang-Chengdu-Qihoo360/nProtectAntivirus_POC/tree/master/TKFsAv_0x220458
Third Party Advisory