MediaTek chipsets privilege escalation | CVE-2023-20821

NAME
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MediaTek chipsets privilege escalation

Platforms Affected:
Mediatek MT6879
Mediatek MT6895
Mediatek MT6983
MediaTek MT2713
MediaTek MT8188
MediaTek MT8195
MediaTek MT8395
MediaTek MT8781

Risk Level:
6.7

Exploitability:
Unproven

Consequences:
Gain Privileges

DESCRIPTION
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MediaTek chipsets could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write in nvram. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system.

CVSS 3.0 Information
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Privileges Required:
High

User Interaction:
None

Scope:
Unchanged

Access Vector:
Local



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