What is CVE-2019-16098?
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.
The record classifies CVE-2019-16098 under weakness classes CWE-125, CWE-787. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 2581 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 7.8 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS (FIRST)
- 19.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.3% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 9.8/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2019-09-11, last modified 2024-08-05
Is CVE-2019-16098 being exploited?
Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2019-16098 is publicly available. 6 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier.
- Barakat/CVE-2019-16098 (github)
- Offensive-Panda/NT-AUTHORITY-SYSTEM-CONTEXT-RTCORE (github)
- 0xDivyanshu-new/CVE-2019-16098 (github)
- VortexCry-Organization/VortexCry-Ransomware-Release (github)
- CrowTheArchfiend/RTCore64-probe (github)
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- Msi: Afterburner 4.6.2.15658
How to fix CVE-2019-16098
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2019-16098 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2019-16098
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2019-16098, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on . This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.