CVE-2014-4973

medium
Published 2014-09-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
esetsmart_security5.0.94
esetsmart_security5.0.95
esetsmart_security5.2.9
esetsmart_security5.2.15
esetsmart_security6.0.306
esetsmart_security6.0.308
esetsmart_security6.0.314
esetsmart_security6.0.316
esetendpoint_security5.0.2113
esetendpoint_security5.0.2122
esetendpoint_security5.0.2126
esetendpoint_security5.0.2214
esetendpoint_security5.0.2225
esetendpoint_security5.0.2228

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.