Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in IOBit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 14.2.0.220 Driver

CVE-2021-21789 · HIGH Severity

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

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 0x9c40a0e0, the first dword passed in the input buffer is the device port to write to and the dword at offset 4 is the value to write via the OUT instruction. A local attacker can send a malicious IRP to trigger this vulnerability.

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