CVE-2020-9756 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Patriot Viper RGB Driver 1.1 and earlier, allowing a local, low-privileged user to read/write 1, 2, or 4 bytes from or to an I/O port due to insufficient access control on specific IOCTL codes. This could lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8, the attack requires local access but is low complexity and does not require user interaction, posing a significant risk to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:patriotmemory:viper_rgb_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.