CVE-2007-4972

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

RegMon 7.04 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via kernel SSDT hooks to the (1) NtCreateKey and (2) NtOpenKey Windows Native API functions.

Affected products

Sysinternals Regmon: 7.04

References

http://osvdb.org/45957
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25721
http://osvdb.org/45957
http://www.matousec.com/info/advisories/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/plague-in-security-software-drivers.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/479830/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25721

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