CVE-2007-5039

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2007-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Ghost Security Suite beta 1.110 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 the (1) NtCreateKey, (2) NtDeleteValueKey, (3) NtQueryValueKey, (4) NtSetSystemInformation, and (5) NtSetValueKey kernel SSDT hooks.

Affected products

Ghostsecurity Ghost Security Suite: 1.110_beta

References

http://osvdb.org/45895
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161
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://osvdb.org/45895
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3161
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

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