VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-15303

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.53%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-10-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In CPUID CPU-Z before 1.43, there is an arbitrary memory write that results directly in elevation of privileges, because any program running on the local machine (while CPU-Z is running) can issue an ioctl 0x9C402430 call to the kernel-mode driver (e.g., cpuz141_x64.sys for version 1.41).

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references