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CVE-2003-1233

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

Pedestal Software Integrity Protection Driver (IPD) 1.3 and earlier allows privileged attackers, such as rootkits, to bypass file access restrictions to the Windows kernel by using the NtCreateSymbolicLinkObject function to create a symbolic link to (1) \Device\PhysicalMemory or (2) to a drive letter using the subst command.

Affected products

• Pedestalsoftware Integrity Protection Driver: through 1.3

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-01/0017.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-01/0018.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/7816
• http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=59&a=16
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6511
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10979
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-01/0017.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2003-01/0018.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/7816
• http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=59&a=16
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6511
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10979

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