CVE-2024-55414

critical

Description

A vulnerability exits in driver SmSerl64.sys in Motorola SM56 Modem WDM Driver v6.12.23.0, which allows low-privileged users to mapping physical memory via specially crafted IOCTL requests . This can be exploited for privilege escalation, code execution under high privileges, and information disclosure. These signed drivers can also be used to bypass the Microsoft driver-signing policy to deploy malicious code.

References

https://securityaffairs.com/186888/hacking/microsoft-patch-tuesday-security-updates-for-january-2026-fixed-actively-exploited-zero-day.html

https://us.motorola.com/

https://github.com/heyheysky/vulnerable-driver/blob/master/CVE-2024-55414/CVE-2024-55414_SmSerl64.sys_README.md

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-01-07

Updated: 2025-01-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00119