What is CVE-2019-7246?

CVE-2019-7246 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Amd Atillk64. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2020-05-18.

How severe is CVE-2019-7246?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Amd Atillk64

CVE-2019-7246

An issue was discovered in atillk64.sys in AMD ATI Diagnostics Hardware Abstraction Sys/Overclocking Utility 5.11.9.0. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register (MSR). Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges.

EPSS: 0.004 (32.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Amd Atillk64 — versions 5.11.9.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-7246?: CVE-2019-7246 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Amd Atillk64. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2020-05-18.
How severe is CVE-2019-7246?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.