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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-80114 EUVD-2026-71685GHSA-v97v-xg2j-qq42

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

Published Sep 4, 2026 · Updated Oct 1, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
PassMark Software PerformanceTest < 11.1 build 1012 11.1 build 1012
PassMark Software BurnInTest < 11.1 build 1000 11.1 build 1000
PassMark Software OSForensics < 11.1 build 1016 11.1 build 1016

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