CVE-2026-80114 PUBLISHED

PassMark PerformanceTest, BurnInTest, and OSForensics Hard-coded Credentials Authentication Bypass via DirectIo64.sys

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 25.08.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

PassMark PerformanceTest before 11.1 build 1012, BurnInTest before 11.1 build 1000, and OSForensics before 11.1 build 1016 contain a hard-coded credentials vulnerability in DirectIo64.sys that allows local attackers to perform arbitrary physical memory writes by extracting an 8-byte key embedded as a hardcoded literal in the distributed binary and computing valid MD5 authentication tags for arbitrary IOCTL write requests. Attackers can additionally bypass a secondary validation gate by using the driver's own bit-clear IOCTL to clear a single bit in the gating instruction's displacement byte, causing all subsequent write requests to skip MAC verification, size checks, and Vendor ID checks entirely.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.5

Product Status

Vendor PassMark Software
Product PerformanceTest
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 11.1 build 1012 (excl.)
Vendor PassMark Software
Product BurnInTest
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 11.1 build 1000 (excl.)
Vendor PassMark Software
Product OSForensics
Versions Default: affected
  • affected from 0 to 11.1 build 1016 (excl.)

Credits

  • Emil Sørbrøden finder

References

Problem Types

  • Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key CWE