#VU16679 Buffer overflow in Wibukey - CVE-2018-3990

 

#VU16679 Buffer overflow in Wibukey - CVE-2018-3990

Published: December 24, 2018 / Updated: June 28, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16679
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-3990
CWE-ID: CWE-120
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vulnerable software:
Wibukey
Software vendor:
Wibu Systems

Description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to buffer overflow in the 0x8200E804 IOCTL handler functionality of WibuKey.sys when handling malicious input. A local attacker can use a specially crafted IRP request, trigger kernel memory corruption and gain elevated privileges.

Remediation

Update to version 6.50.

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