VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2020-12446
CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.50%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-04-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
The ene.sys driver in G.SKILL Trident Z Lighting Control through 1.00.08 exposes mapping and un-mapping of physical memory, reading and writing to Model Specific Register (MSR) registers, and input from and output to I/O ports to local non-privileged users. This leads to privilege escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory