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ghsa-qhcp-3fxf-c8vc

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-05-14 18:30

Modified

2025-07-28 21:31

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control in Phoenix WinFlash Driver on Windows allows Privilege Escalation which allows for modification of system firmware.This issue affects WinFlash Driver: before 4.5.0.0.

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  "modified": "2025-07-28T21:31:30Z",
  "published": "2024-05-14T18:30:58Z",
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CVE-2023-35841 (GCVE-0-2023-35841)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-05-14 14:56

Modified

2025-07-28 20:49

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-732 - Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
CWE-782 - Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control

Summary

Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control in Phoenix WinFlash Driver on Windows allows Privilege Escalation which allows for modification of system firmware.This issue affects WinFlash Driver: before 4.5.0.0.

References

URL

Tags

	https://phoenixtech.com/phoenix-security-notifications/cve-2023-35841/
	https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2023/10/hunting-vulnerable-kernel-drivers.html
	https://jvn.jp/en/vu/JVNVU93886750/index.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Phoenix	WinFlash Driver	Version: 0 ≤

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