| Title | AOMEI AOMEI Backupper Kernel Driver amwrtdrv.sys 8.3.0 Local Privilege Escapation |
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| Description | AOMEI Backupper 8.3.0 installs and auto-loads the signed kernel driver amwrtdrv.sys. The driver exposes a user-reachable raw disk forwarding interface at \\.\amwrtdrv\Partition0\DISK<N>.
A standard, non-administrative user can use this interface to send read and write requests to a disk device even when Windows denies the same user direct access to \\.\PhysicalDrive<N> and to protected files stored on that disk. In the proof below, the standard user could not read or modify an administrator-only flag file on a temporary VHD, but could read and overwrite that file's NTFS data clusters through the AOMEI driver.
An unprivileged user can exploit arbitrary read/write primitives over protected file resources to achieve local privilege escalation. |
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| Source | ⚠️ https://winslow1984.com/books/cve-collection/page/aomei-backupper-830-kernel-driver-amwrtdrvsys-local-privilege-escalation |
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| User | winslow1984 (UID 79140) |
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| Submission | 05/22/2026 07:33 (29 days ago) |
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| Moderation | 06/20/2026 11:36 (29 days later) |
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| Status | Accepted |
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| VulDB entry | 372521 [AOMEI Backupper up to 8.3.0 Kernel Driver amwrtdrv.sys access control] |
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| Points | 20 |
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