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CVE-2025-14304: ASRock, ASRockRack, ASRockInd｜Motherboard - Protection Mechanism Failure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-17 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-693

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.

Affected products

• ASRock Intel 500 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRock Intel 600 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRock Intel 700 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRock Intel 800 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRockInd Intel 500 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRockInd Intel 600 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRockInd Intel 700 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRockInd Intel 800 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRockRack Intel 500 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRockRack Intel 600 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRockRack Intel 700 chipset motherboard: 0
• ASRockRack Intel 800 chipset motherboard: 0

References

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

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