CVE-2018-8061General(hwinfo / amd64_kernel_driver)

LOWCVSS 7.1 · HIGH

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

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.

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0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Exploit / PoC references

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

amd64_kernel_driver

Threat summary

1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

Technical details provided in 1 signal
General: 1 classified signal
1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors

hwinfo

Products

amd64_kernel_driver

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d

Signal classification1 categories

General

1100.0%

Full discourse1 post

blanche 🫧@angelroom0142d
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@troy0h1 Feel free to research those yourself, and next time don't make me do it for you CVE-2024-1460, CVE-2020-14979, CVE-2020-8808, CVE-2025-9870, CVE-2018-8061, CVE-2025-65264, CVE-2019-25360, CVE-2020-5990 None of these are false flags, all of these are LPEs or Kernel R/W :) https://t.co/EnrQU9rrGa
Post summary
The tweet lists several CVEs and asserts they are all local privilege escalation or kernel read/write vulnerabilities, mentioning no false flags, patches, or active exploitation.
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Part	Vendor	Product	Version	Target SW	Target HW
App	hwinfo	amd64_kernel_driver	-	-	-

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