GIGABYTE Intel 600 Chipset Motherboard protection mechanism

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in GIGABYTE Intel 600 Chipset Motherboard, Intel 700 Chipset Motherboard, Intel 800 Chipset Motherboard, AMD 600 Chipset Motherboard, AMD 800 Chipset Motherboard and AMD TRX50 Chipset Motherboard and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. Such manipulation leads to protection mechanism. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-14302. The attack can be executed directly on the physical device. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in GIGABYTE Intel 600 Chipset Motherboard, Intel 700 Chipset Motherboard, Intel 800 Chipset Motherboard, AMD 600 Chipset Motherboard, AMD 800 Chipset Motherboard and AMD TRX50 Chipset Motherboard and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Certain motherboard models developed by GIGABYTE has a Protection Mechanism Failure vulnerability. Because IOMMU was not properly enabled, unauthenticated physical attackers can use a DMA-capable PCIe device to read and write arbitrary physical memory before the OS kernel and its security features are loaded.

The advisory is shared for download at twcert.org.tw. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-14302 since 12/09/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 12/18/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CNNVD (CNNVD-202512-3316). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.8

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Protection mechanism
CWE: CWE-693
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Physical: Yes
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

12/09/2025 CVE reserved
12/17/2025 +8 days Advisory disclosed
12/17/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
12/18/2025 +1 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: twcert.org.tw
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-14302 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-14302
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-336956
CNNVD: CNNVD-202512-3316 - GIGABYTE Chipsets 安全漏洞

Entryinfo

Created: 12/17/2025 08:32
Updated: 12/18/2025 16:07
Changes: 12/17/2025 08:32 (72), 12/18/2025 16:07 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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