CVE-2003-1246: Pedestal Software Integrity Protection Driver

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NtCreateSymbolicLinkObject in ntdll.dll in Integrity Protection Driver (IPD) 1.2 and 1.3 allows local users to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on \winnt\system32\drivers using the subst command.

Affected products

• Pedestal Software Integrity Protection Driver: version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.