CVE-2008-1625 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting avast! Home and Professional 4.7 for Windows. It stems from improper input validation in the aavmker4.sys driver when handling IOCTL 0xb2d60030 requests. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability allows an authenticated local attacker to gain full control over the affected system, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has a high FAUCET Risk Score of 85/100, indicating its potential impact despite limited community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.7.827CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast_antivirus_home:4.7.827:*:windows:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.7.844CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast_antivirus_home:4.7.844:*:windows:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.7.869CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast_antivirus_home:4.7.869:*:windows:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.7.1043CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast_antivirus_home:4.7.1043:*:windows:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.7.1098CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast_antivirus_home:4.7.1098:*:windows:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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