CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-8950
High (7.8) in amd user experience program. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- amd:user_experience_program
References
- https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.html
- https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.html
- https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.html
- https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.html