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.

This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-0221. 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.