Medium severity · published Dec 17, 2025
CVE-2025-14302
GIGABYTE|Motherboard - Protection Mechanism Failure
6.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Physical
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 28% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
A6
AMD 600 chipset motherboard · GIGABYTE
0 · source: vendor
A8
AMD 800 chipset motherboard · GIGABYTE
0 · source: vendor
AT
AMD TRX50 chipset motherboard · GIGABYTE
0 · source: vendor
I6
intel 600 chipset Motherboard · GIGABYTE
0 · source: vendor
I7
intel 700 chipset Motherboard · GIGABYTE
0 · source: vendor
I8
intel 800 chipset Motherboard · GIGABYTE
0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14302
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14302
www.gigabyte.com
https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Security?type=1
www.twcert.org.tw
https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-10575-e4f41-2.html
www.twcert.org.tw
https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-10574-ddf09-1.html
