CVE-2020-8950

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 12, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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