CVE-2018-5279

CVSS V2 Medium 6.1 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
** DISPUTED ** In Malwarebytes Premium 3.3.1.2183, the driver file (FARFLT.SYS) allows local users to cause a denial of service (BSOD) or possibly have unspecified other impact because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x9c40e02c. NOTE: the vendor reported that they "have not been able to reproduce the issue on any Windows operating system version (32-bit or 64-bit)."
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-5279
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-01-08T05:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-03-05T17:44:04
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:malwarebytes:malwarebytes:3.3.1.2183:*:*:*:premium:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 6.1
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 8.5
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/ZhiyuanWang-Chengdu-Qihoo360/Malwarebytes_POC/tree/master/0x9c40e02c Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102453 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5279
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-5279
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:56:59 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 00:44:02 2018-01-08T05:29Z 2018-01-08T05:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 00:44:02 2019-03-05T17:44:04 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 00:44:02 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated