CVE-2020-12446 Privilege escalation in n/a
A local attacker can exploit the G.SKILL Trident Z Lighting Control driver to escalate privileges to SYSTEM by accessing physical memory and I/O ports.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-12446?
CVE-2020-12446 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The ene.sys driver in G.SKILL Trident Z Lighting Control through 1.00.08 exposes mapping and un-mapping of physical memory, reading and writing to Model Specific Register (MSR) registers, and input from and output to I/O ports to local non-privileged users. This leads to privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12446?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gskill Trident Z Lighting Control.
How do I fix CVE-2020-12446?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-12446 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2020-12446 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12446 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 3 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xjhp-97gh-h5mv.