CVE-2018-5080 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in K7 AntiVirus 15.1.0306, specifically within the K7FWHlpr.sys driver, due to insufficient input validation for IOCtl 0x830020FC. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and potentially achieve other unspecified impacts. With a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable locally with low attack complexity, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
15.1.0306CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:k7computing:antivirus:15.1.0306:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
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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.