CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-12446
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-04-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
The ene.sys driver in G.SKILL Trident Z Lighting Control through 1.00.08 exposes mapping and un-mapping of physical memory, reading and writing to Model Specific Register (MSR) registers, and input from and output to I/O ports to local non-privileged users. This leads to privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
Affected configurations
• gskill trident z lighting control (<= 1.00.08)
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-1262 Improper Access Control for Register Interface weakness
References
- https://github.com/active-labs/Advisories/blob/master/2020/ACTIVE-2020-003.md Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/active-labs/Advisories/blob/master/2020/ACTIVE-2020-003.md Third Party Advisory