CVE-2019-16098

moderate-risk
Published 2019-09-11

The driver in Micro-Star MSI Afterburner 4.6.2.15658 (aka RTCore64.sys and RTCore32.sys) allows any authenticated user to read and write to arbitrary memory, I/O ports, and MSRs. This can be exploited for privilege escalation, code execution under high privileges, and information disclosure. These signed drivers can also be used to bypass the Microsoft driver-signing policy to deploy malicious code.

Do I need to act?

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77.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 23% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Affected Vendors

Msi

References (2)

Exploit https://github.com/Barakat/CVE-2019-16098
Exploit https://github.com/Barakat/CVE-2019-16098
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moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 20/34 · Moderate
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal