CVE-2007-5761: Motorola Netoctopus

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The NantSys device 5.0.0.115 in Motorola netOctopus 5.1.2 build 1011 has weak permissions for the \\.\NantSys device interface (nantsys.sys), which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash), as demonstrated by modifying the SYSENTER_EIP_MSR CPU Model Specific Register (MSR) value.

Affected products

• Motorola Netoctopus: version 5.1.2_build_1011 only

Published 2008-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.