# CVE-2024-1096: Twister Antivirus v8.17 - Denial of Service

> Attackers can cause a denial of service in Twister Antivirus by triggering specific IOCTL codes in the fildds.sys driver.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Feb 2024
- **Updated:** 27 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8h8w-85rq-cgp4

## What is CVE-2024-1096?

CVE-2024-1096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Filseclab Twister Antivirus, published on 13 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Twister Antivirus v8.17 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service vulnerability by triggering the 0x80112067, 0x801120CB 0x801120CC 0x80112044, 0x8011204B, 0x8011204F, 0x80112057, 0x8011205B, 0x8011205F, 0x80112063, 0x8011206F, 0x80112073, 0x80112077, 0x80112078, 0x8011207C and 0x80112080 IOCTL codes of the fildds.sys driver.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1096?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Filseclab Twister Antivirus.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-1096?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1096 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1096 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1096 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Filseclab Twister Antivirus

- [CVE-2023-1444](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1444/): Filseclab Twister Antivirus IoControlCode fildds.sys 0x8011206B denial of service (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2023-1443](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1443/): Filseclab Twister Antivirus IoControlCode fildds.sys 0x80112053 denial of service (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-1140](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1140/): Twister Antivirus v8.17 - Out-of-bounds Read (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-2874](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-2874/): Twister Antivirus IoControlCode filppd.sys 0x804f2140 denial of service (medium 5.5)
- [CVE-2023-1008](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1008/): Twister Antivirus IoControlCode filmfd.sys 0x801120E4 denial of service (medium 5.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1096 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1096 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Filseclab Twister Antivirus, published on 13 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1096 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Filseclab Twister Antivirus. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1096/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1096/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1096
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1096
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1096

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1096/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.