CVE-2026-80115

PassMark PerformanceTest, BurnInTest, and OSForensics Kernel Crash via DirectIo64.sys MSR Write IOCTL

State
Published
Severity
6.9 Medium
Published
Sep 4, 2026
Updated
Oct 1, 2026
Reserved
Aug 25, 2026

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Description

PassMark PerformanceTest before 11.1 build 1012, BurnInTest before 11.1 build 1000, and OSForensics before 11.1 build 1016 contain a privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability in DirectIo64.sys that allows local attackers to read arbitrary Model-Specific Registers or write zero to any MSR through exposed IOCTLs with insufficient blocklist enforcement. Attackers can exploit the unrestricted write IOCTL to zero out the system call handler MSR, causing an immediate unrecoverable kernel crash on the next system call, or read security-sensitive MSRs used to locate kernel data structures.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.06.9 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-782 Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control

Affected Products

ProductVersions
PerformanceTestPassMark Software
  • before 11.1 build 1012Affected
BurnInTestPassMark Software
  • before 11.1 build 1000Affected
OSForensicsPassMark Software
  • before 11.1 build 1016Affected

References

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