CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8950
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-02-12
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
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.
Affected configurations
• amd user experience program (<= 1.0.0.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- 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
- 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