CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-1233

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2003-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
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 configurations

• pedestalsoftware integrity protection driver (<= 1.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
  • CWE-64 Windows Shortcut Following (.LNK) weakness

References