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CVE-2020-17382

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-17382 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the MSI AmbientLink MsIo64 driver version 1.0.0.8, impacting MSI AmbientLink products. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.8) allows a local, low-privileged attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts without user interaction. While not listed on the KEV catalog, a public exploit for local privilege escalation exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:msi:ambientlink_mslo64_firmware:1.0.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-48836 · Sep 28, 2020
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0208 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/159315/MSI-Ambient-Link-Driver-1.0.0.8-Privilege-Escalation.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
us.msi.com / support/download/vga
ExploitVendor Advisory
coresecurity.com / core-labs/advisories/msi-ambient-link-multiple-vulnerabilities
Exploit