Back

HIGH

An issue was discovered in GPU-Z.sys in TechPowerUp GPU-Z before 2.23.0

Published Mar 25, 2020

Description

An issue was discovered in GPU-Z.sys in TechPowerUp GPU-Z before 2.23.0. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via an IOCTL 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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (1)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 25, 2020
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Jan 31, 2019
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a