CVE-2007-5040: Ghostsecurity Ghost Security Suite

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

Ghost Security Suite alpha 1.200 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 the (1) NtCreateKey, (2) NtCreateThread, (3) NtDeleteValueKey, (4) NtQueryValueKey, (5) NtSetSystemInformation, and (6) NtSetValueKey kernel SSDT hooks.

Affected products

• Ghostsecurity Ghost Security Suite: version alpha_1.200 only

Published 2007-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.