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Vulnerability · CVE-2025-51060

An issue was discovered in CPUID cpuz.sys 1.0.5.4.

Published Aug 5, 2025 · catalog updated Jul 5, 2026 · An issue was discovered

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CVE-2025-51060 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 28.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run An issue was discovered.

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Severity
Medium6.5
Known exploitation
Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
28.00%
Remediation
Vendor / distro source
Affected products
vendor n/a n/a n/a

An issue was discovered in CPUID cpuz.sys 1.0.5.4. An attacker can use DeviceIoControl with the unvalidated parameters 0x9C402440 and 0x9C402444 as IoControlCodes to perform RDMSR and WRMSR, respectively. Through this process, the attacker can modify MSR_LSTAR and hook KiSystemCall64. Afterward, using Return-Oriented Programming (ROP), the attacker can manipulate the stack with pre-prepared gadgets, disable the SMAP flag in the CR4 register, and execute a user-mode syscall handler in the kernel context. It has not been confirmed whether this works on 32-bit Windows, but it functions on 64-bit

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How to fix CVE-2025-51060

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What to do

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Should you patch?

CVE-2025-51060 is not in CISA KEV. FIRST estimates a 28.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Check whether you run An issue was discovered.

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What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 28.00%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

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Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Aug 5, 2025 · EUVD

    Detected

    An issue was discovered in CPUID cpuz.sys 1.0.5.4. An attacker can use DeviceIoControl with the unvalidated parameters 0x9C402440 and 0x9C402444 as IoControlCodes to perform RDMSR and WRMSR, respectively. Through this process, the attacker can modify MSR_LSTAR and hook KiSystemCall64. Afterward, using Return-Oriented Programming (ROP), the attacker can manipulate the stack with pre-prepared gadget

  2. Jul 5, 2026 · EUVD

    Updated

    An issue was discovered in CPUID cpuz.sys 1.0.5.4. An attacker can use DeviceIoControl with the unvalidated parameters 0x9C402440 and 0x9C402444 as IoControlCodes to perform RDMSR and WRMSR, respectively. Through this process, the attacker can modify MSR_LSTAR and hook KiSystemCall64. Afterward, using Return-Oriented Programming (ROP), the attacker can manipulate the stack with pre-prepared gadget

Sources

  • EUVDVulnerability recordEUVD-2025-23645

    An issue was discovered in CPUID cpuz.sys 1.0.5.4. An attacker can use DeviceIoControl with the unvalidated parameters 0x9C402440 and 0x9C402444 as IoControlCodes to perform RDMSR and WRMSR, respectively. Through this process, the attacker can modify MSR_LSTAR and hook KiSystemCa

    euvd.enisa.europa.eu

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Jul 5, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.