CVE-2011-2005 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Ancillary Function Driver (afd.sys) affecting Microsoft Windows XP SP2/SP3 and Server 2003 SP2. It allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by providing crafted user-mode input to the kernel. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. It is actively exploited in the wild, with public exploit code available, including Metasploit modules and entries in ExploitDB. Despite its active exploitation, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:-:sp2:*:*:professional:*:x64:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:-:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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, 0.0 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.