CVE-2020-8950

HIGH Year: 2020
CVSS v3 Score
7.8
High
CVSS v2 Score
7.2
High
Weakness Type
CWE-59
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Vulnerability Description

The AUEPLauncher service in Radeon AMD User Experience Program Launcher through 1.0.0.1 on Windows allows elevation of privilege by placing a crafted file in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\upload and then creating a symbolic link in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\temp that points to an arbitrary folder with an arbitrary file name.

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