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CVE-2020-8950

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

• AMD User Experience Program: through 1.0.0.1

References

• https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.html
• https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.html
• https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/another-privilege-escalation-filewrite.html
• https://heynowyouseeme.blogspot.com/2020/02/privilege-escalation-filewrite-eop-in.html

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