FKIE_CVE-2020-8950

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-02-12 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:27
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
amd user_experience_program *
microsoft windows -
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