CVE-2019-16098

high

Description

The driver in Micro-Star MSI Afterburner 4.6.2.15658 (aka RTCore64.sys and RTCore32.sys) allows any authenticated user to read and write to arbitrary memory, I/O ports, and MSRs. This can be exploited for privilege escalation, code execution under high privileges, and information disclosure. These signed drivers can also be used to bypass the Microsoft driver-signing policy to deploy malicious code.

References

https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/uat-10147-uses-ai-to-scale-server.html

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-10147-deploys-spectre-a-cross-platform-implant-with-linux-rootkit-and-byovd-capabilities/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/07/06/the-five-day-job-a-blackbyte-ransomware-intrusion-case-study/

https://github.com/oioio-space/maldev

https://github.com/CrowTheArchfiend/RTCore64-probe

https://github.com/VortexCry-Organization/VortexCry-Ransomware-Release

https://github.com/VortexCry-Organization/VortexCry-Ransomware

https://github.com/Offensive-Panda/NT-AUTHORITY-SYSTEM-CONTEXT-RTCORE

https://github.com/Barakat/CVE-2019-16098

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-6943

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-09-11

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.19839