Certain motherboard models developed by ASRock and its subsidiaries, ASRockRack and ASRockInd. 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.

Metrics

Attack Vector Physical

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Physical

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00058.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Affected Vendors & Products

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

Please update firmware to latest version.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://www.asrock.com/support/Security.asp cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.asrockind.com/zh-tw/security-center cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-10579-9205b-2.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-10578-c43b4-1.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Asrock
Asrock intel 500
Asrock intel 600
Asrock intel 700
Asrock intel 800
Vendors & Products Asrock
Asrock intel 500
Asrock intel 600
Asrock intel 700
Asrock intel 800

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Certain motherboard models developed by ASRock and its subsidiaries, ASRockRack and ASRockInd. 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.
Title ASRock, ASRockRack, ASRockInd｜Motherboard - Protection Mechanism Failure
Weaknesses CWE-693
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7, 'vector': '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'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: twcert

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-17T21:30:16.815Z

Reserved: 2025-12-09T06:37:46.607Z

Link: CVE-2025-14304

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-17T21:30:10.582Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-12-17T04:15:44.447

Modified: 2025-12-18T15:08:06.237

Link: CVE-2025-14304

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-12-17T14:28:41Z

Weaknesses