CVE-2017-6007 — A kernel pool overflow in the driver hitmanpro37.sys in Sophos SurfRight HitmanPro before 3.7.20 Build 286 (included in the HitmanPro.Alert solution and Sophos Clean) allows local users to crash the OS via a malformed IOCTL call

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A kernel pool overflow in the driver hitmanpro37.sys in Sophos SurfRight HitmanPro before 3.7.20 Build 286 (included in the HitmanPro.Alert solution and Sophos Clean) allows local users to crash the OS via a malformed IOCTL call

Published Sep 13, 2017

5.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.40%

Description

A kernel pool overflow in the driver hitmanpro37.sys in Sophos SurfRight HitmanPro before 3.7.20 Build 286 (included in the HitmanPro.Alert solution and Sophos Clean) allows local users to crash the OS via a malformed IOCTL call.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.40% 0.00401

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00401

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (8 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.40% (0.00401)	31.95th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Sep 20, 2026	0.40% (0.00401)	34.17th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.06th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.33% (0.00332)	3.01th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.33% (0.00332)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (2)

https://trackwatch.com/kernel-pool-overflow-exploitation-in-real-world-windows-7/
x_refsource_MISCExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://www.nuitduhack.com/fr/planning/talk_10
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://trackwatch.com/kernel-pool-overflow-exploitation-in-real-world-windows-7/		x_refsource_MISCExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://www.nuitduhack.com/fr/planning/talk_10		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 13, 2017

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Feb 15, 2017

Link CVE-2017-6007

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2017-6007

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2017-6007