High severity · published May 10, 2018
CVE-2018-8061
HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send IOCTL 0x85FE2608 to the device driver with the HWiNFO32 symbolic device name, resulting in…
7.1
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send IOCTL 0x85FE2608 to the device driver with the HWiNFO32 symbolic device name, resulting in direct physical memory read or write.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AK
Amd64 Kernel Driver · Hwinfo
through 8.98 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8061
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8061
Exploit
https://github.com/otavioarj/SIOCtl
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