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Friday, September 18, 2026
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known ransomware use

GIGABYTE Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-10-24
Federal due date
2022-11-14
Vendor
GIGABYTE
Product
Multiple Products
EPSS
89.1th percentile (score 0.037, as of 2026-09-16)
NVD CVSS v3.1
7.8 (HIGH)
Ransomware use
Known
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19321

CISA short description

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.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

NVD description

The GPCIDrv and GDrv low-level drivers 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 expose functionality to read and write arbitrary physical memory. This could be leveraged by a local attacker to elevate privileges.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.