Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-1625

Title: Avast Avast Antivirus Home Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-1625

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Apr 02, 2008
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.71%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-1625: aavmker4.sys in avast! Home and Professional 4.7 for Windows does not properly validate input to IOCTL 0xb2d60030, which allows local users to gain privileges via certain IOCTL requests.

Impacted Vendors

A
avast 2

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/29605 http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490321/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28502 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019732 http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-002.txt http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1034/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41527 http://secunia.com/advisories/29605 http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-4-home_pro-revision-history.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490321/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28502 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019732 http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-002.txt http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1034/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41527
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-1625 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12406
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.