#VU15551 Privilege escalation in ASRock products - CVE-2018-10711 

 

#VU15551 Privilege escalation in ASRock products - CVE-2018-10711

Published: October 26, 2018 / Updated: June 17, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15551
Vulnerability risk: High
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-10711
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vulnerable software:
ASRock RGBLED
ASRock RestartToUEFI
ASRock F-Stream
ASRock A-Tuning
Software vendor:
ASRock

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to the drivers expose functionality to read and write Machine Specific Registers (MSRs). A remote attacker can execute arbitrary ring-0 code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Remediation

Update ASRock RGBLED to version 1.0.36
Update ASRock A-Tuning to version 3.0.216,
Update ASRock F-Stream to version 3.0.216,
Update ASRock RestartToUEFI to version 1.0.7.

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