CVE-2020-8950

CVSS V2 High 7.2 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
The AUEPLauncher service in Radeon AMD User Experience Program Launcher through 1.0.0.1 on Windows allows elevation of privilege by placing a crafted file in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\upload and then creating a symbolic link in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\temp that points to an arbitrary folder with an arbitrary file name.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2020-8950
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2020-02-12T20:15:15
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2020-02-19T19:28:10
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-59 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:amd:user_experience_program:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.0.0.1
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.2
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.html Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.html Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8950
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8950
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:49:24 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 11:14:52 2020-02-12T20:15Z 2020-02-12T20:15:15 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 11:14:52 2020-02-19T19:28:10 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 11:14:52 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated