CVE-2008-5724

Exp

The Personal Firewall driver (aka epfw.sys) 3.0.672.0 and earlier in ESET Smart Security 3.0.672 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted IRP in a certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL request to \Device\Epfw that overwrites portions of memory.

Published: 2008-12-26 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-5724 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.5/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.80%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-5724

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
7516 exploit_db edb 2008-12-18 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5724

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.21% 0.80% +0.59%
2 2025-03-17 0.04% 0.21% +0.17%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.04% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5724

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.2 2.0 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 3.9 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-5724

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5724

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
eset smart_security <= 3.0.672 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.551 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.551:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.560 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.560:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.563 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.563:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.621 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.621:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.642 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.642:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.650 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.650:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.657 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.657:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.667 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.667:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eset smart_security 3.0.669 cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:3.0.669:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5724

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