CVE-2021-21787

Published Jul 7, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-8959 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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
talos
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 6:23 PM
Reserved
Jan 4, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 7, 2021, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:36 AM