Vulnerability · Published Jun 23, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-14974
High 7.1
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 60% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 40.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Public PoC
Official description
The driver in IOBit Unlocker 1.1.2 allows a low-privileged user to unlock a file and kill processes (even ones running as SYSTEM) that hold a handle, via IOCTL code 0x222124.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.iobit.com/en/iobit-unlocker.php x_refsource_MISC
- https://theevilbit.github.io/posts/ x_refsource_MISC