CVE-2019-16098

HIGH EXPLOITED IN THE WILD RANSOMWARE

Micro-Star MSI Afterburner 4.6.2.15658 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (6)

nomisec WORKING POC 200 stars
by Barakat · local
https://github.com/Barakat/CVE-2019-16098
nomisec WORKING POC 30 stars
by Offensive-Panda · local
https://github.com/Offensive-Panda/NT-AUTHORITY-SYSTEM-CONTEXT-RTCORE
nomisec WORKING POC 6 stars
by 0xDivyanshu-new · local
https://github.com/0xDivyanshu-new/CVE-2019-16098
nomisec WORKING POC
by CrowTheArchfiend · poc
https://github.com/CrowTheArchfiend/RTCore64-probe
gitlab WORKING POC
by gavz · local
https://gitlab.com/gavz/CVE-2019-16098
nomisec SUSPICIOUS
by VortexCry-Organization · poc
https://github.com/VortexCry-Organization/VortexCry-Ransomware-Release

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.7660
EPSS Percentile 99.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2022-10-04
InTheWild.io 2022-10-07
Ransomware Use Confirmed
CWE
CWE-125 CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
msi/afterburner 4.6.2.15658
Published Sep 11, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026