{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-0221 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0221 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-0221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IOBit Protected Folder, published on 5 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-0221 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-0221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IOBit Protected Folder, published on 5 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-0221 exists.\n\nAffected product: IOBit Protected Folder. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0221/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0221/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-0221","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0221/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-0221","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-x45x-pqwc-c7f3"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"no_fix_stated","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"IOBit Protected Folder","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can cause a denial of service in IOBit Protected Folder via a null pointer dereference in the pffilter.sys driver.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"VulDB","cpe":[{"product":"protected_folder","vendor":"i0bit"}],"cvss":{"score":6.8,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"},{"id":"CWE-404","name":"Improper Resource Shutdown or Release"}],"description":"A vulnerability has been found in IOBit Protected Folder up to 1.3.0 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function 0x22200c in the library pffilter.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"IOBit Protected Folder IOCTL pffilter.sys 0x22200c null pointer dereference","id":"CVE-2025-0221","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"IObit Protected Folder IOCTL IUProcessFilter.sys 0x8001E004 null pointer dereference","id":"CVE-2025-0222"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Trimble SPS851 Ethernet Configuration Menu cross site scripting","id":"CVE-2025-0220"},"products":["Protected Folder"],"published":"2025-01-05","related":[{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"IObit Protected Folder IOCTL IUProcessFilter.sys 0x8001E004 null pointer dereference","id":"CVE-2025-0222","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-01-05"},{"cvss_score":6.8,"headline":"IObit Protected Folder IOCTL IURegistryFilter.sys 0x8001E010 null pointer dereference","id":"CVE-2025-0223","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-01-05"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"poc","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-01-06","vendors":["IOBit"]},"summary":"A local attacker can cause a denial of service in IOBit Protected Folder via a null pointer dereference in the pffilter.sys driver.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0221/"}