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CVE-2017-15303 (GCVE-0-2017-15303)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-16 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:50
VLAI
Summary
In CPUID CPU-Z before 1.43, there is an arbitrary memory write that results directly in elevation of privileges, because any program running on the local machine (while CPU-Z is running) can issue an ioctl 0x9C402430 call to the kernel-mode driver (e.g., cpuz141_x64.sys for version 1.41).
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-10-15 00:00
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