CVE-2025-14303
MSI｜Motherboard - Protection Mechanism Failure
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.0 High
- Published
- Dec 17, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 17, 2025
- Reserved
- Dec 9, 2025
Description
Certain motherboard models developed by MSI 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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 7.0 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | twcert |
| 3.1 | 6.8 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | twcert |
Weaknesses
- CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Intel 600 chipset motherboardMSI |
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Intel 700 chipset motherboardMSI |
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References
- https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-10576-0a0fd-1.htmlthird-party-advisory
- https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-10577-3cd58-2.htmlthird-party-advisory
- https://csr.msi.com/global/product-security-advisoriesvendor-advisory
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