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CVE-2026-80114
PassMark PerformanceTest, BurnInTest, and OSForensics Hard-coded Credentials Authentication Bypass via DirectIo64.sys
AV AC AT PR UI VC VI VA CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L N L N H H H 8.5 .0019 7.9 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
PerformanceTest unspecified —
BurnInTest unspecified —
OSForensics unspecified —
TIMELINE
Aug 25 Reserved by VulnCheck
Sep 4 Published (CNA: VulnCheck)
Oct 1 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-80114 (PassMark Software PerformanceTest). Public exploit reference added.
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.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| August 25, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by VulnCheck |
| September 4, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: VulnCheck) |
| October 1, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-80114 (PassMark Software PerformanceTest). Public exploit reference added. |
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This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2026-80114 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Saturday, October 3, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.