What is CVE-2019-7247?

CVE-2019-7247 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Amd Overdrive. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-05-18.

How severe is CVE-2019-7247?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Amd Overdrive

CVE-2019-7247

An issue was discovered in AODDriver2.sys in AMD OverDrive. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via IOCTL 0x81112ee0 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: 0.021 (79.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Amd Overdrive
N/a — versions n/a

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-7247?: CVE-2019-7247 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Amd Overdrive. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-05-18.
How severe is CVE-2019-7247?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.