Privilege escalation in ASRock products - CVE-2018-10712

 

Privilege escalation in ASRock products - CVE-2018-10712

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15552
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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-2018-10712
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available
Vendor: ASRock
Affected software:
ASRock RGBLED
ASRock RestartToUEFI
ASRock F-Stream
ASRock A-Tuning

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The weakness exists due to exposure of functionality to read/write data from/to IO ports. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-10712

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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