A vulnerability was found in IObit Advanced SystemCare Utimate up to 17.0.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function 0x8001E024 in the library AscRegistryFilter.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-12661. The attack needs to be approached locally. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.