# CVE-2023-20598 — AMD Radeon™ RX 5000 Series Graphics Cards

> As of 2024-08-02, CVE-2023-20598 is a HIGH-severity vulnerability in AMD Radeon™ RX 5000 Series Graphics Cards, CVSS v3.1 7.8, EPSS 0.4% (37.3th percentile). Threadlinqs Intelligence links 1 tracked threat campaign to CVE-2023-20598, most recently “Lunex Stealer Abuses Vulnerable AMD Radeon Driver (CVE-2023-20598) to Blind Security Monitoring and Steal Browser/Crypto Credentials”.

**Last updated:** 2024-08-02

## What is CVE-2023-20598?

An improper privilege management in the AMD Radeon™ Graphics driver may allow an authenticated attacker to craft an IOCTL request to gain I/O control over arbitrary hardware ports or physical addresses resulting in a potential arbitrary code execution.

The record classifies CVE-2023-20598 under weakness class [CWE-269](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cwe/CWE-269). 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. 12 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 1084 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):** 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37.3% of all scored CVEs
- **CISA KEV:** Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- **Threadlinqs priority:** 7.4/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- **Published:** 2023-10-17, last modified 2024-08-02

## Is CVE-2023-20598 being exploited?

Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2023-20598 is publicly available. 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier.

- [H4rk3nz0/CVE-2023-20598-PDFWKRNL](https://github.com/H4rk3nz0/CVE-2023-20598-PDFWKRNL) (github)
- [trickest/cve](https://github.com/trickest/cve/blob/main/2023/CVE-2023-20598.md) (trickest)

## Affected products and versions

- **AMD**: Radeon™ RX 5000 Series Graphics Cards, Radeon™ RX 6000 Series Graphics Cards, Radeon™ RX 7000 Series Graphics Cards, Radeon™ PRO W5000 Series Graphics Cards, Radeon™ PRO W6000 Series Graphics Cards, Radeon™ PRO W7000 Series Graphics Cards, Ryzen™ 7045 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, Ryzen™ 7020 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, Ryzen™ 7040 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, Ryzen™ 7000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, Ryzen™ 6000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, Ryzen™ 7035 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics

## How to fix CVE-2023-20598

Vendor advisory: [https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-6009](https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-6009). Apply the vendor fix referenced above to every affected product listed in this record, then confirm the running version against the vendor advisory.

## Threat activity tracking CVE-2023-20598

1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2023-20598, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

- [Lunex Stealer Abuses Vulnerable AMD Radeon Driver (CVE-2023-20598) to Blind Security Monitoring and Steal Browser/Crypto Credentials](https://intel.threadlinqs.com/threat/TL-2026-2664) — HIGH · 2026-09-26

## Sources

Enriched from CVE.org, NVD, FIRST EPSS, GitHub Security Advisories, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on 2026-09-29. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

**Vendor advisory and patch**

- [amd.com — vendor advisory](https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/AMD-SB-6009)

Canonical: https://intel.threadlinqs.com/cve/CVE-2023-20598
Full detection coverage and IOCs for threats exploiting CVE-2023-20598 via the Threadlinqs MCP server (Purple tier): https://intel.threadlinqs.com/mcp