CVE-2018-19321 — GIGABYTE Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE-2018-19321 (GIGABYTE Multiple Products) is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 2022-10-24. Used in ransomware. The GPCIDrv and GDrv low-level drivers in GIGABYTE App Center, AORUS Graphics Engine, XTREME Gaming Engine… See the required fix, due date and advisories.

Exploitation status

CVE-2018-19321 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2022-10-24. The GPCIDrv and GDrv low-level drivers in GIGABYTE App Center, AORUS Graphics Engine, XTREME Gaming Engine, and OC GURU II expose functionality to read and write arbitrary physical memory. This could be leveraged by a local attacker to elevate privileges.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project
GIGABYTE
Affected product
Multiple Products
Added to CISA KEV
2022-10-24
US federal remediation due date
2022-11-14
Ransomware association
Known
EPSS score
—
Weakness (CWE)
—

Remediation: the required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

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Sourced from public upstream advisories (CISA KEV, ENISA EUVD, vendor PSIRTs) mirrored daily. Informational only — not a remediation decision, not legal advice, and the absence of a record is not evidence of safety.