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CVE-2008-1737: sophos anti-virus Improper Input Validation

CVSS: 6.9v2.0MediumModified
Published 29-04-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-1737 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in sophos anti-virus. EPSS estimates a 0.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.9/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.62%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 29-04-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0.5, and other 7.x versions, when Runtime Behavioural Analysis is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot with the product disabled) and possibly gain privileges via a zero value in a certain length field in the ObjectAttributes argument to the NtCreateKey hooked System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.62%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

49%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.62% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.62%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Sophos1 product

1 vendor · 1 product

References

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