CVE-2017-16237

high

Published 2017-11-03 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

In Vir.IT eXplorer Anti-Virus before 8.5.42, the driver file (VIAGLT64.SYS) contains an Arbitrary Write vulnerability because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x8273007C.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-43109 local windows

Parvez Anwar · 2017-11-01

Vir.IT eXplorer Anti-Virus 8.5.39 - 'VIAGLT64.SYS' Local Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
tgsoft	vir.it_explorer	`{"endExcluding":"8.5.42"}`	`8.5.42`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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