Privilege escalation in GIGABYTE Global products - CVE-2018-19321
Published: December 19, 2018 / Updated: October 24, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16624
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-2018-19321
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
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 both GPCI and GIO expose functionality to read/write arbitrary physical memory. A local attacker can gain elevated privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-19321
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution addressing the vulnerability.