CVE-2021-21789 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2021-21789

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the way IOBit Advanced...

Vulnerability 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 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Iobit
Vulnerable Versions:
IOBit Advanced SystemCare Ultimate 14.2.0.220

Timeline

Official Publish: July 7th, 2021
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.