GIGABYTE BRIX Mini PCs suffer from a flawed firmware protection mechanism vulnerability

GIGABYTE is a professional motherboard manufacturer in Taiwan, GB-BSi7H-6500 and GB-BXi7-5775 are the BRIX series of mini PCs. UEFI, or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, is a standard that describes a detailed type of interface. This interface is used to automatically load the operating syst...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2017-3198

GIGABYTE BRIX UEFI firmware does not cryptographically validate images prior to updating the system firmware. Additionally, the firmware updates are served over HTTP. An attacker can make arbitrary modifications to firmware images without being detected...

VulnCheck KEV: 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, SMMBWP, and PRx features. As a result, the BIOS is not protected from arbitrary write access and may permit modifications to the SPI flash...