Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in G.SKILL Trident Z Lighting Control Driver
CVE-2020-12446
Key Information:
- Vendor
Gskill
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 29 April 2020
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What is CVE-2020-12446?
The G.SKILL Trident Z Lighting Control driver (ene.sys) prior to version 1.00.08 has significant security flaws that allow local non-privileged users to map and unmap physical memory. This vulnerability also permits reading and writing to Model Specific Register (MSR) registers, as well as unauthorized input and output operations to I/O ports. Exploitation of this vulnerability provides an avenue for privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

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Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)
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References
CVSS V3.1
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Exploit known to exist
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved
