CVE-2020-8950

HIGH 7.8CVE-2020-8950 · Published 12/02/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-8950 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting user experience program (amd).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.0%, higher than 62.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
user experience program amd	`≤ 1.0.0.1`	No fix yet

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.

References

heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.html · Exploit
heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.html · Exploit

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