Vulnerability · Published Aug 7, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-15480
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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 (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/eset/vulnerability-disclosures x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.passmark.com/forum/index.php x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.passmark.com/support/index.php x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/eset/vulnerability-disclosures/blob/master/CVE-2020-15480/CVE-2020-15480.md x_refsource_MISC