PT-2020-20388 · Amd · Radeon Amd User Experience Program Launcher

Published 2020-02-12 · Updated 2020-02-19 · CVE-2020-8950

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Radeon AMD User Experience Program Launcher version 1.0.0.1

Description The issue allows elevation of privilege by placing a crafted file in %PROGRAMDATA%AMDPPCupload and then creating a symbolic link in %PROGRAMDATA%AMDPPCtemp that points to an arbitrary folder with an arbitrary file name.

Recommendations For Radeon AMD User Experience Program Launcher version 1.0.0.1, consider restricting access to the %PROGRAMDATA%AMDPPCupload and %PROGRAMDATA%AMDPPCtemp directories to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-8950

Affected Products

Radeon Amd User Experience Program Launcher

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/sailay1996/amd_eop_poc · Exploit
• 🔥 https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-8950 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8950 · Security Note