Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 7, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-21787
CVE-2021-21787
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the way IOBit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 14.2.0.220 driver handles Privileged I/O write requests. During IOCTL 0x9c40a0d8, the first dword passed in the input buffer is the device port to write to and the byte at offset 4 is the value to write via the OUT instruction. The OUT instruction can write one byte to the given I/O device port, potentially leading to escalated privileges of unprivileged users.
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Affected products
2- IOBit/Advanced SystemCare Ultimatedescription
- Range: = 14.2.0.220
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1254mitrex_refsource_MISC
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