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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Various Sources third-party-advisory
https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-10578-c43b4-1.html
Various Sources third-party-advisory
https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-10579-9205b-2.html
Various Sources vendor-advisory
https://www.asrock.com/support/Security.asp
Various Sources vendor-advisory
https://www.asrockind.com/zh-tw/security-center
Scores
CVSS v3
6.8
EPSS
0.0031
EPSS Percentile
22.5%
Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-693
Status
published
Products (12)
ASRock/Intel 500 chipset motherboard
ASRock/Intel 600 chipset motherboard
ASRock/Intel 700 chipset motherboard
ASRock/Intel 800 chipset motherboard
ASRockInd/Intel 500 chipset motherboard
ASRockInd/Intel 600 chipset motherboard
ASRockInd/Intel 700 chipset motherboard
ASRockInd/Intel 800 chipset motherboard
ASRockRack/Intel 500 chipset motherboard
ASRockRack/Intel 600 chipset motherboard
... and 2 more
Published
Dec 17, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026