{"id":"CVE-2020-23740","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-23740","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:20:24.949Z","title":"In DriverGenius 9.61.5480.28 there is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the driver wizard, attackers can use constructed programs to increase user privileges.","description":"In DriverGenius 9.61.5480.28 there is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the driver wizard, attackers can use constructed programs to increase user privileges.","published":"2020-12-03T19:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:04:57.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-862"],"affected":["drivergenius/drivergenius"],"epss":{"score":0.00337,"percentile":0.26949,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.drivergenius.com/","tags":["Product"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/y5s5k5/CVE-2020-23740","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/y5s5k5/POCtemp8","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.cnvd.org.cn/flaw/show/2438470","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.drivergenius.com/","tags":["Product"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/y5s5k5/CVE-2020-23740","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/y5s5k5/POCtemp8","tags":["Broken Link","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.cnvd.org.cn/flaw/show/2438470","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-23740","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}