CVE-2020-15480 - An issue was discovered in PassMark BurnInTest through 9.1, OSForensics through 7.1, and PerformanceTest through 10

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HIGH

An issue was discovered in PassMark BurnInTest through 9.1, OSForensics through 7.1, and PerformanceTest through 10

Published Aug 7, 2020

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.63%

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

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

Link	Providers	Tags
https://github.com/eset/vulnerability-disclosures		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/eset/vulnerability-disclosures/blob/master/CVE-2020-15480/CVE-2020-15480.md		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
https://www.passmark.com/forum/index.php		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://www.passmark.com/support/index.php		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory