Out-of-bounds Read in Msi Afterburner
CVE-2019-16098
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.182 (96.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Msi Afterburner — versions 4.6.2.15658
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
- Barakat/CVE-2019-16098
- Offensive-Panda/NT-AUTHORITY-SYSTEM-CONTEXT-RTCORE
- 0xDivyanshu-new/CVE-2019-16098
- VortexCry-Organization/VortexCry-Ransomware-Release
- CrowTheArchfiend/RTCore64-probe
- 474172261/KDU
- ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- CVEDB/awesome-cve-repo
- CVEDB/top
- ExpLife0011/awesome-windows-kernel-security-development
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-16098?
- CVE-2019-16098 is a high-severity vulnerability in Msi Afterburner, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2019-09-11.
- How severe is CVE-2019-16098?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2019-16098 known to be exploited?
- 32 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.