CVE-2006-3973: My Firewall Plus

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

My Firewall Plus 5.0 Build 1119 does not verify if explorer.exe is running before launching iexplore.exe from the "Test Your Firewall" feature, which allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges.

Affected products

• My Firewall Plus My Firewall Plus: version 5.0_build_1119 only

Published 2006-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.