CVE-2018-8060: Hwinfo AMD64 Kernel Driver

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and lower allows an unprivileged user to send an IOCTL to the device driver. If input and/or output buffer pointers are NULL or if these buffers' data are invalid, a NULL/invalid pointer access occurs, resulting in a Windows kernel panic aka Blue Screen. This affects IOCTLs higher than 0x85FE2600 with the HWiNFO32 symbolic device name.

Affected products

• Hwinfo AMD64 Kernel Driver: up to and including 8.98

Published 2018-05-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.