CVE-2014-4973

Exp

The ESET Personal Firewall NDIS filter (EpFwNdis.sys) driver in the Firewall Module Build 1183 (20140214) and earlier in ESET Smart Security and ESET Endpoint Security products 5.0 through 7.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted argument to a 0x830020CC IOCTL call.

Published: 2014-09-23 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published

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Threat Intelligence & Risk Assessment for CVE-2014-4973

EPSS CVSS CWE Exploit-DB Affected

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-4973 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-4973

EDB-ID	Source	Kind	Published	Link
—	nvd_ref	exploit_tag		Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-4973

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	2025-03-17	0.04%	0.06%	+0.01%
2	2023-03-07	0.89%	0.04%	-0.84%
3	2022-02-04	—	0.89%	—

Full EPSS history (3 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-4973

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score	Version	Severity	Vector	Exploitability	Impact	Score source
6.9	2.0	MEDIUM	`AV:L/AC:M/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:M) Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones. 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.	3.4	10.0	[email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-4973

CWE-20 MITRE ↗

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-4973

Vendor	Product	Version	Raw CPE
eset	smart_security	5.0.94	cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:5.0.94:::::::*
eset	smart_security	5.0.95	cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:5.0.95:::::::*
eset	smart_security	5.2.9	cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:5.2.9:::::::*
eset	smart_security	5.2.15	cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:5.2.15:::::::*
eset	smart_security	6.0.306	cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:6.0.306:::::::*
eset	smart_security	6.0.308	cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:6.0.308:::::::*
eset	smart_security	6.0.314	cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:6.0.314:::::::*
eset	smart_security	6.0.316	cpe:2.3:a:eset:smart_security:6.0.316:::::::*
eset	endpoint_security	5.0.2113	cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security:5.0.2113:::::::*
eset	endpoint_security	5.0.2122	cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security:5.0.2122:::::::*
eset	endpoint_security	5.0.2126	cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security:5.0.2126:::::::*
eset	endpoint_security	5.0.2214	cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security:5.0.2214:::::::*
eset	endpoint_security	5.0.2225	cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security:5.0.2225:::::::*
eset	endpoint_security	5.0.2228	cpe:2.3:a:eset:endpoint_security:5.0.2228:::::::*

References for CVE-2014-4973

URL	Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/52
https://www.portcullis-security.com/security-research-and-downloads/security-advisories/cve-2014-4973/	Exploit

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