Sysinternals maintains a focused suite of system-administration and diagnostic tools for Windows environments, including widely used utilities such as Process Explorer, Process Monitor, and RegMon that operators rely on for visibility into system behavior and troubleshooting. The observed vulnerability signal centers on input-validation weaknesses in these monitoring and introspection tools, which operate with elevated privilege and directly parse system structures. Current exploitation status and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Sysinternals over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (4 CVEs).
4 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2005-2679HIGH Buffer overflow in Sysinternals Process Explorer 9.23, and other versions before 9.25, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long CompanyName field in the VersionInfo | Aug 23, 2005 | 10.0 | 25 | NO | NO |
NtRegmon before 6.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash), while NtRegmon is running, via invalid pointers to hook functions such as ZwSetQueryValue. | Dec 31, 2004 | 2.1 | 17 | NO | YES |
CVE-2007-4969MEDIUM Process Monitor 1.22 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers, which allows local users to cause a denial of servic | Sep 19, 2007 | 4.4 | 14 | NO | NO |
RegMon 7.04 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) | Sep 19, 2007 | 1.9 | 11 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (4 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Sysinternals.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Sysinternals — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.