Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU16623

Privilege escalation in GIGABYTE Global products - CVE-2018-19323

Published: December 19, 2018 / Updated: August 30, 2025

Vulnerability identifier: #VU16623

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.6 [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]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19323

CWE-ID: CWE-782

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

Vulnerability details

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

The weakness exists due to GIO exposes functionality to read and write Machine Specific Registers (MSRs). A local attacker can execute arbitrary ring-0 code with elevated privileges.

Affected software

AORUS GRAPHICS ENGINE
GIGABYTE APP Center
XTREME GAMING ENGINE
OC GURU

How to mitigate CVE-2018-19323

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

Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

Exploit #11903 - CVE-2018-19323 (An exploitation framework for CVE-2018-19323 - GIGABYTE GDrv privilege escalation vulnerability with multi-architecture support and framework integration) (August 30, 2025)

External References

https://www.secureauth.com/labs/advisories/gigabyte-drivers-elevation-privilege-vulnerabilities

Related Security Bulletins

Privilege escalation in GIGABYTE drivers