The MBStorage DRAM lighting control module within Gigabyte Control Center (GCC) developed by GIGABYTE Technology has an Improper Access Control vulnerability. Authenticated local attackers can send specific IOCTL commands through the driver MyPortIO_x64.sys bundled with the module, thereby arbitrarily reading and writing physical memory and obtaining kernel-level privileges.
CVE-2026-9492
Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-07-13. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.8
- EG Score
- 7.8(high)
- EPSS
- 1.5%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 13, 2026
Last Modified
July 14, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jul 13, 2026GIGABYTE|Gigabyte Control Center - Improper Access Control-TWCERT/CC Taiwan Computer Emergency Response Team/Coordination Center
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https://www.twcert.org.tw/tw/cp-132-11033-97316-1.htmlVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-9492(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 16× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-16 00:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-16 00:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 16:57 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 12:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 12:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-15 01:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 01:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-14 14:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 14:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-14 02:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 02:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 15:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 15:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 04:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 04:02 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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