What is CVE-2018-8061?

CVE-2018-8061 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hwinfo Amd64 Kernel Driver, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2018-05-10.

How severe is CVE-2018-8061?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Hwinfo Amd64 Kernel Driver

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 direct physical memory read or write.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.004 (35.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Hwinfo Amd64_kernel_driver
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-8061?: CVE-2018-8061 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hwinfo Amd64 Kernel Driver, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2018-05-10.
How severe is CVE-2018-8061?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.