CVE-2024-1443 MSI Afterburner v4.6.5.16370 - Denial of Service

Medium 4.4 Published Updated

A local attacker with high integrity privileges can cause a denial of service in MSI Afterburner by triggering a null pointer dereference in the RTCore64.sys driver.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-1443?

CVE-2024-1443 is a medium-severity vulnerability in MSI Afterburner, published on 7 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

MSI Afterburner v4.6.5.16370 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service vulnerability by triggering the 0x80002000 IOCTL code of the RTCore64.sys driver. The handle to the driver can only be obtained from a high integrity process.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1443?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Msi Afterburner.

How do I fix CVE-2024-1443?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1443 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-1443 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1443 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-4r36-f255-mccm.

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