CVE-2021-21788 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting IOBit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 14.2.0.220. It allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by sending a malicious IRP to the product's driver, which improperly handles privileged I/O write requests. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
14.2.0.220CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:iobit:advanced_systemcare_ultimate:14.2.0.220:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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