CVE-2018-5086 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in K7 AntiVirus 15.1.0306, specifically within the K7FWHlpr.sys driver. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) by providing invalid input to IOCtl 0x8300215F, potentially leading to further unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it indicates a locally exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, potentially resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| 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.