CVE-2008-5725: Entechtaiwan Powerstrip

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The NT kernel-mode driver (aka pstrip.sys) 5.0.1.1 and earlier in EnTech Taiwan PowerStrip 3.84 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via certain IRP parameters in an IOCTL request to \Device\Powerstrip1 that overwrites portions of memory.

Affected products

• Entechtaiwan Powerstrip: up to and including 3.84; version 3.00 only; version 3.01 only; version 3.02 only; version 3.10 only; version 3.11 only; …

Published 2008-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.