High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 16, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-15303
CVE-2017-15303
Description
In CPUID CPU-Z before 1.43, there is an arbitrary memory write that results directly in elevation of privileges, because any program running on the local machine (while CPU-Z is running) can issue an ioctl 0x9C402430 call to the kernel-mode driver (e.g., cpuz141_x64.sys for version 1.41).
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References
1- github.com/akayn/Bugs/blob/master/CPUID/CVE-2017-15303/README.mdnvdThird Party Advisory
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