CVE-2025-0288

high

Description

Various Paragon Software products contain an arbitrary kernel memory vulnerability within biontdrv.sys, facilitated by the memmove function, which does not validate or sanitize user controlled input, allowing an attacker the ability to write arbitrary kernel memory and perform privilege escalation.

References

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/726882

https://securelist.com/malware-report-q1-2025-pc-iot-statistics/116686/

https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerable-paragon-driver-exploited-in-ransomware-attacks/

https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/hackers-exploit-paragon-partition.html

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-gangs-exploit-paragon-partition-manager-bug-in-byovd-attacks/

https://securityaffairs.com/174789/cyber-crime/ransomware-gangs-paragon-partition-manager-biontdrv-sys-driver-zero-day-attacks.html

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/726882

https://www.paragon-software.com/support/#patches

https://paragon-software.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/32993902732817-IMPORTANT-Paragon-Driver-Security-Patch-for-All-Products-of-Hard-Disk-Manager-Product-Line-Biontdrv-sys

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-03-03

Updated: 2025-06-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024