CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-7244

7.2 HIGH Published 2020-03-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-03-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-665

Description

An issue was discovered in kerneld.sys in AIDA64 before 5.99. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction via IOCTL 0x80112084 and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register (MSR). Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges.

Affected configurations

• aida64 aida64 (< 5.99)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-665 Improper Initialization weakness

References