CVE-2019-7244: AIDA64

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• AIDA64 AIDA64: before 5.99 (fixed in 5.99)

Published 2020-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.