Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU16621

Privilege escalation in GIGABYTE Global products - CVE-2018-19320

Published: December 19, 2018 / Updated: December 27, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU16621

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Clear

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19320

CWE-ID: CWE-782

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

Vendor: GIGABYTE Global

Affected software:
GIGABYTE APP Center
AORUS GRAPHICS ENGINE
XTREME GAMING ENGINE
OC GURU

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target device.

The weakness exists due to ring0 memcpy-like functionality built into GIO's IOCTL 0xC3502808. A local attacker can gain elevated privileges.

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution addressing the vulnerability.