CVE-2007-4972: Sysinternals Regmon

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

RegMon 7.04 does not properly validate certain parameters to System Service Descriptor Table (SSDT) function handlers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via kernel SSDT hooks to the (1) NtCreateKey and (2) NtOpenKey Windows Native API functions.

Affected products

• Sysinternals Regmon: version 7.04 only

Published 2007-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.