AMD Radeon RX 5000 Graphics Products AMD Cleanup Utility uncontrolled search path

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in AMD Radeon RX 5000 Graphics Products, Radeon PRO W5000 Graphics Products, Radeon RX 6000 Graphics Products, Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Products, Cleanup Utility, Radeon PRO W6000 Graphics Products, Radeon PRO W7000 Graphics Products, Radeon RX Vega Graphics Cards, Radeon VII, Radeon PRO WX 8000, 9000 Graphics Cards and Radeon PRO VII. It has been classified as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component AMD Cleanup Utility. Performing a manipulation results in uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-36333. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in AMD Radeon RX 5000 Graphics Products, Radeon PRO W5000 Graphics Products, Radeon RX 6000 Graphics Products, Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Products, Cleanup Utility, Radeon PRO W6000 Graphics Products, Radeon PRO W7000 Graphics Products, Radeon RX Vega Graphics Cards, Radeon VII, Radeon PRO WX 8000, 9000 Graphics Cards and Radeon PRO VII. This affects an unknown code block of the component AMD Cleanup Utility. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A DLL hijacking vulnerability in the AMD Cleanup Utility could allow an attacker to achieve privilege escalation potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution.

It is possible to read the advisory at amd.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-36333 since 05/23/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/21/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-55590). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• AMD

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• 9000 Graphics Cards
• Cleanup Utility
• Radeon PRO VII
• Radeon PRO W5000 Graphics Products
• Radeon PRO W6000 Graphics Products
• Radeon PRO W7000 Graphics Products
• Radeon PRO WX 8000
• Radeon RX 5000 Graphics Products
• Radeon RX 6000 Graphics Products
• Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Products
• Radeon RX Vega Graphics Cards
• Radeon VII

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• commercial

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