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CVE-2018-19323

9.8, critical Known exploited Used in ransomware

GIGABYTE Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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CVSS
9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
8% higher than 94.9% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
21 Dec 20187 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 24 Oct 2022 and links it to ransomware activity. US federal agencies had to remediate by 14 Nov 2022, a deadline that has passed.

Required action. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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).

Details

Vendor
GIGABYTE
Product
Aorus Graphics Engine
Weakness
n/a
Status
Analyzed
Updated
1 Oct 2026
Assigner
cve@mitre.org

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References 6

Exploit code 2

Advisories 2

Other references 2

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other GIGABYTE CVEs

Every GIGABYTE CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2018-19320 GIGABYTE Multiple Products Unspecified Vulnerability KEV EPSS 4% 7.8, high
  • CVE-2018-19321 GIGABYTE Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability KEV EPSS 4% 7.8, high
  • CVE-2018-19322 GIGABYTE Multiple Products Code Execution Vulnerability KEV EPSS 2% 7.8, high

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.