What is CVE-2017-3197?

CVE-2017-3197 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gigabyte Gb-bsi7h-6500, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-07-09.

How severe is CVE-2017-3197?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Gigabyte Gb-bsi7h-6500

CVE-2017-3197

GIGABYTE BRIX UEFI firmware for the GB-BSi7H-6500 (version F6) and GB-BXi7-5775 (version F2) platforms does not securely implement BIOSWE, BLE, SMM_BWP, and PRx features. As a result, the BIOS is not protected from arbitrary write access a…

EPSS: 0.056 (92.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Gigabyte Gb-bsi7h-6500 — versions F6
Gigabyte Gb-bsi7h-6500_firmware — versions f6
Gigabyte Gb-bxi7-5775 — versions F2
Gigabyte Gb-bxi7-5775_firmware — versions f2

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

cret@cert.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cret@cert.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cret@cert.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
cret@cert.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cret@cert.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-3197?: CVE-2017-3197 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gigabyte Gb-bsi7h-6500, classified under Protection Mechanism Failure. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2018-07-09.
How severe is CVE-2017-3197?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.