#VU16620 Privilege escalation in Aura Sync - CVE-2018-18535
Published: December 19, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16620
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18535
CWE-ID: CWE-782
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Aura Sync
Aura Sync
Software vendor:
Asus
Asus
Description
The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target device.
The weakness exists due to Asusgio exposes a functionality to read and write Machine Specific Registers (MSRs). A local attacker can execute arbitrary ring-0 code with elevated privileges.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution addressing the vulnerability.