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CVE-2019-16098

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 19.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The driver in Micro-Star MSI Afterburner 4.6.2.15658 (aka RTCore64.sys and RTCore32.sys) allows any authenticated user to read and write to arbitrary memory, I/O ports, and MSRs. This can be exploited for privilege escalation, code execution under high privileges, and information disclosure. These signed drivers can also be used to bypass the Microsoft driver-signing policy to deploy malicious code.

Affected products

• MSI Afterburner: 4.6.2.15658

References

• https://github.com/Barakat/CVE-2019-16098
• https://github.com/Barakat/CVE-2019-16098

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