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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-6476

In SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Trial 6.0.1254, the SASKUTIL.SYS driver allows privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x9C402114 or 0x9C402124 or 0x9C40207c.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 4.54%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.54%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

In SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Trial 6.0.1254, the SASKUTIL.SYS driver allows privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x9C402114 or 0x9C402124 or 0x9C40207c.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
4.54% probability · 92th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
superantispyware/superantispyware
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 4.54%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 4.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.