CVE-2020-15480

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 7, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jul 1, 2020

Description

An issue was discovered in PassMark BurnInTest through 9.1, OSForensics through 7.1, and PerformanceTest through 10. The kernel driver exposes IOCTL functionality that allows low-privilege users to read and write to arbitrary Model Specific Registers (MSRs). This could lead to arbitrary Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges. This affects DirectIo32.sys and DirectIo64.sys.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/eset/vulnerability-disclosures
https://www.passmark.com/forum/index.php
https://www.passmark.com/support/index.php
https://github.com/eset/vulnerability-disclosures/blob/master/CVE-2020-15480/CVE-2020-15480.md

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