#VU16623 Privilege escalation in GIGABYTE Global products - CVE-2018-19323
Published: December 19, 2018 / Updated: August 30, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16623
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19323
CWE-ID: CWE-782
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild
Vulnerable software:
GIGABYTE APP Center
AORUS GRAPHICS ENGINE
XTREME GAMING ENGINE
OC GURU
GIGABYTE APP Center
AORUS GRAPHICS ENGINE
XTREME GAMING ENGINE
OC GURU
Software vendor:
GIGABYTE Global
GIGABYTE Global
Description
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.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution addressing the vulnerability.