---
id: CVE-2026-80114
title: >-
  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 …
summary: >-
  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 …
severity: high
cvss: 7.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-321
published: '2026-09-04'
updated: '2026-09-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-08T20:10:30.270'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80114'
references:
  - url: 'https://dkom.dev/posts/directio64-disclosure/'
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/floppywiggler/directio64-disclosure'
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
  - url: 'https://www.osforensics.com/whats-new.html'
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
  - url: 'https://www.passmark.com/products/burnintest/history.php'
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
  - url: 'https://www.passmark.com/products/performancetest/history.php'
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/passmark-performancetest-burnintest-and-osforensics-hard-coded-credentials-authentication-bypass-via-directio64-sys
    label: disclosure@vulncheck.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.0019
epssPercentile: 0.07735
ingestedAt: '2026-09-08T21:11:12.295Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.