CVE-2018-5274 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Malwarebytes Premium 3.3.1.2183, specifically within the FARFLT.SYS driver. A local attacker can trigger a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) by providing invalid input to IOCtl 0x9C40E024, potentially leading to other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable by a low-privileged local user with no user interaction required, allowing for high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, and the vendor reported an inability to reproduce the issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.3.1.2183CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:malwarebytes:malwarebytes:3.3.1.2183:*:*:*:premium:*:*:* |
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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