Vulnerability in Avast Antivirus Home
CVE-2008-1625
aavmker4.sys in avast! Home and Professional 4.7 for Windows does not properly validate input to IOCTL 0xb2d60030, which allows local users to gain privileges via certain IOCTL requests.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (53.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 53rd percentile — 53.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Avast Antivirus Home — versions 4.7.827, 4.7.844, 4.7.869
- Avast Antivirus Professional — versions 4.7.827, 4.7.844, 4.7.1043
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1034/references (vdb-entry)
- www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-002.txt
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28502 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/29605 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490321/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41527 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2008-1625?
- CVE-2008-1625 is a vulnerability in Avast Antivirus Home, classified under CWE-264. Published 2008-04-02.
- Is CVE-2008-1625 known to be exploited?
- 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.