CVE-2019-7651

high

Description

EPP.sys in Emsisoft Anti-Malware prior to version 2018.12 allows an attacker to bypass ACLs because Interpreted Device Characteristics lacks FILE_DEVICE_SECURE_OPEN and therefore files and directories "inside" the \\.\EPP device are not properly protected, leading to unintended impersonation or object creation. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 2018.12 and later.

References

https://nafiez.github.io/security/bypass/2019/01/08/emsisoft-Anti-Malware-bypass.html

https://help.emsisoft.com/en/1760/vulnerability-report-en/

https://github.com/nafiez/nafiez.github.io/blob/master/_posts/2019-01-09-emsisoft-Anti-Malware-bypass.md

https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/32517/new-in-2018-12-safe-web-browsing-with-emsisoft-browser-security/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-02-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.04275