What is CVE-2024-8159?

CVE-2024-8159 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Faronics Deepfreeze, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-10-03.

How severe is CVE-2024-8159?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Faronics Deepfreeze

CVE-2024-8159

Deep Freeze 9.00.020.5760 is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability by triggering the 0x70014 IOCTL code of the FarDisk.sys driver.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2024-10-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (3.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 4th percentile — 3.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Faronics Deepfreeze — versions 9.00.020.5760

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

fluidattacks.com/advisories/kanka/ (third-party-advisory)
www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze (product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8159?: CVE-2024-8159 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Faronics Deepfreeze, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-10-03.
How severe is CVE-2024-8159?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.