Vulnerability · Published Dec 17, 2025 · Assigned by twcert
CVE-2025-14304ASRock, ASRockRack, ASRockInd|Motherboard - Protection Mechanism Failure
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Intel 500 chipset motherboard from ASRock. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 29% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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 (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-693 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-10578-c43b4-1.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.twcert.org.tw/en/cp-139-10579-9205b-2.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.asrock.com/support/Security.asp vendor-advisory
- https://www.asrockind.com/zh-tw/security-center vendor-advisory