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MEDIUM

CVE-2024-12660

CVE-2024-12660 — IObit Advanced SystemCare Utimate IOCTL AscRegistryFilter.sys 0x8001E018 null pointer dereference

A vulnerability was found in IObit Advanced SystemCare Utimate up to 17.0.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function 0x8001E018 in the library AscRegistryFilter.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, VulDB

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

0%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

iobit

advanced_systemcare_utimate

CVSS base

5.5

MEDIUM

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

PoC

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

No

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

iobit

Products (1)

advanced systemcare utimate

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
5.5CVSS 3.1MEDIUM——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-476
  • CWE-404

Attack patterns reported against this CVE. The ATT&CK techniques below are inferred from its weakness class.

  • T1498.001Network Denial of Service: Direct Network Flood
  • T1499Endpoint Denial of Service
  • T1499.003Endpoint Denial of Service: Application Exhaustion Flood

References

4 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • iobitevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-476other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.