CVE-2018-6471 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Trial 6.0.1254, specifically within the SASKUTIL.SYS driver, due to insufficient input validation for IOCtl 0x9C402078. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and potentially achieve other unspecified impacts. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable by a local, low-privileged user without user interaction, leading to high impact 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0.1254CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:superantispyware:superantispyware:6.0.1254:*:*:*:professional:*:*:* |
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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 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.