CVE-2004-1714

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2004-08-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-732

Description

BlackICE PC Protection and Server Protection installs (1) firewall.ini, (2) blackice.ini, (3) sigs.ini and (4) protect.ini with Everyone Full Control permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) or modify configuration, as demonstrated by modifying firewall.ini to contain a large firewall rule.

Affected products

ISS Blackice Pc Protection: 3.6cbd, 3.6cbr, 3.6cbz, 3.6cca, 3.6ccb, 3.6ccc (+4)
ISS Blackice Server Protection: 3.5cdf, 3.6cbz, 3.6cca, 3.6ccb, 3.6ccc, 3.6ccd (+5)

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-August/025112.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109223751031166&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10915
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16959
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-August/025112.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109223751031166&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10915
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16959

Get alerted when CVE-2004-1714 or the next vulnerability affects your stack