CVE-2018-5278 describes an input validation vulnerability in the FARFLT.SYS driver of Malwarebytes Premium 3.3.1.2183. A local attacker could exploit this flaw by providing malformed input to IOCtl 0x9c40e00c, potentially leading to a denial of service (Blue Screen of Death) or other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local user privileges, but could result in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, and the vendor has 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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