CVE-2018-19323
GIGABYTE Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 14 November 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
The GDrv low-level driver in GIGABYTE APP Center v1.05.21 and earlier, AORUS GRAPHICS ENGINE before 1.57, XTREME GAMING ENGINE before 1.26, and OC GURU II v2.08 exposes functionality to read and write Machine Specific Registers (MSRs).
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 8.36% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 24 October 2022 · due 14 November 2022 · used in ransomware campaigns
- Affected
- gigabyte/aorus graphics engine · gigabyte/gigabyte app center · gigabyte/oc guru ii · gigabyte/xtreme gaming engine
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 8.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Security/1801; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19323
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/39Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106252Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Security/1801Vendor Advisory
- https://www.gigabyte.com/tw/Support/Utility/Graphics-CardProduct
- https://www.secureauth.com/labs/advisories/gigabyte-drivers-elevation-privilege-vulnerabilitiesBroken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/39Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106252Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Security/1801Vendor Advisory
- https://www.gigabyte.com/tw/Support/Utility/Graphics-CardProduct
- https://www.secureauth.com/labs/advisories/gigabyte-drivers-elevation-privilege-vulnerabilitiesBroken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2018-19323US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.