📄 Description (English)
The Performance Library component of Gigabyte Control Center has an Insecure Deserialization vulnerability. Authenticated local attackers can send a malicious serialized payload to the EasyTune Engine service, resulting in privilege escalation.
🤖 AI Executive Summary
CVE-2026-4416 is a high-severity insecure deserialization vulnerability in Gigabyte Control Center's Performance Library component affecting the EasyTune Engine service. Authenticated local attackers can exploit this to achieve privilege escalation through malicious serialized payloads. With no patch currently available and no public exploit, organizations should implement immediate compensating controls and monitor for exploitation attempts.
📄 Description (Arabic)
🤖 AI Intelligence Analysis Analyzed: Apr 27, 2026 04:19
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia Impact Assessment
This vulnerability primarily impacts Saudi government agencies, financial institutions, and enterprises using Gigabyte systems for workstations or servers. High-risk sectors include: SAMA-regulated banking institutions (privilege escalation could compromise financial systems), NCA-supervised government entities (potential data breach and system compromise), healthcare organizations (patient data at risk), and energy sector (ARAMCO and related entities using Gigabyte infrastructure). The local authentication requirement limits exposure but poses significant risk in shared computing environments and corporate networks where insider threats exist.
🏢 Affected Saudi Sectors
Banking and Financial Services (SAMA-regulated)
Government and Public Administration (NCA-supervised)
Healthcare and Medical Services
Energy and Petroleum (ARAMCO and subsidiaries)
Telecommunications (STC and operators)
Manufacturing and Industrial
Education and Research Institutions
Enterprise IT Infrastructure
🎯 MITRE ATT&CK Techniques
T1548.004 - Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Elevated Execution with Prompt
T1548 - Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
T1203 - Exploitation for Client Execution
T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter
T1547.001 - Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
T1547 - Boot or Logon Autostart Execution
T1574.001 - Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Search Order Hijacking
⚖️ Saudi Risk Score (AI)
7.2
/ 10.0
🔧 Remediation Steps (English)
Immediate Actions:
1. Identify all Gigabyte Control Center installations across your infrastructure, particularly in critical systems
2. Restrict local access to systems running EasyTune Engine service to authorized personnel only
3. Disable Gigabyte Control Center and EasyTune Engine services if not operationally required
4. Implement application whitelisting to prevent unauthorized serialized object execution
Compensating Controls:
1. Monitor EasyTune Engine service for suspicious activity and privilege escalation attempts
2. Implement strict access controls limiting local administrative access
3. Enable Windows Event Logging for service execution and privilege escalation events (Event IDs: 4672, 4673, 4674)
4. Deploy behavioral analysis tools to detect unusual process execution from EasyTune Engine
5. Segment networks to isolate systems running vulnerable Gigabyte components
Detection Rules:
1. Monitor for unexpected child processes spawned by EasyTune Engine service
2. Alert on serialized object deserialization attempts from untrusted sources
3. Track privilege escalation events following EasyTune Engine service activity
4. Monitor registry modifications related to service permissions and execution
Patching:
1. Check Gigabyte support portal regularly for security updates
2. Subscribe to Gigabyte security advisories
3. When patch becomes available, test in isolated environment before production deployment
🔧 خطوات المعالجة (العربية)
الإجراءات الفورية:
1. تحديد جميع تثبيتات Gigabyte Control Center عبر البنية التحتية الخاصة بك، خاصة في الأنظمة الحرجة
2. تقييد الوصول المحلي إلى الأنظمة التي تقوم بتشغيل خدمة EasyTune Engine للموظفين المصرح لهم فقط
3. تعطيل خدمات Gigabyte Control Center و EasyTune Engine إذا لم تكن مطلوبة تشغيليًا
4. تنفيذ القائمة البيضاء للتطبيقات لمنع تنفيذ الكائنات المسلسلة غير المصرح بها
الضوابط التعويضية:
1. مراقبة خدمة EasyTune Engine للنشاط المريب ومحاولات تصعيد الامتيازات
2. تنفيذ ضوابط وصول صارمة تحد من الوصول الإداري المحلي
3. تفعيل تسجيل أحداث Windows لتنفيذ الخدمة وأحداث تصعيد الامتيازات
4. نشر أدوات التحليل السلوكي للكشف عن تنفيذ العمليات غير العادي من EasyTune Engine
5. تقسيم الشبكات لعزل الأنظمة التي تقوم بتشغيل مكونات Gigabyte الضعيفة
قواعد الكشف:
1. مراقبة العمليات الفرعية غير المتوقعة التي تم إنشاؤها بواسطة خدمة EasyTune Engine
2. التنبيه على محاولات فك تسلسل الكائنات من مصادر غير موثوقة
3. تتبع أحداث تصعيد الامتيازات التالية لنشاط خدمة EasyTune Engine
4. مراقبة تعديلات السجل المتعلقة بأذونات الخدمة والتنفيذ
التصحيح:
1. تحقق من بوابة دعم Gigabyte بانتظام للحصول على تحديثات الأمان
2. الاشتراك في استشارات أمان Gigabyte
3. عند توفر التصحيح، اختبره في بيئة معزولة قبل نشره في الإنتاج
📋 Regulatory Compliance Mapping
🟢 NCA ECC 2024
A.5.1.1 - Information Security Policies and Procedures
A.6.1.1 - Internal Organization
A.6.2.1 - Mobile Device and Teleworking
A.8.1.1 - User Endpoint Devices
A.8.2.1 - Privileged Access Rights
A.8.3.1 - Information Access Restriction
A.12.4.1 - Event Logging
A.12.6.1 - Management of Technical Vulnerabilities
🔵 SAMA CSF
Governance (GV) - Security Governance and Risk Management
Identify (ID) - Asset Management and Vulnerability Management
Protect (PR) - Access Control and Privilege Management
Detect (DE) - Security Monitoring and Event Logging
Respond (RS) - Incident Response and Management
🟡 ISO 27001:2022
5.3 - Segregation of duties
6.5.1 - Information security in supplier relationships
8.1.1 - User endpoint devices
8.2.1 - Privileged access rights
8.3.1 - Information access restriction
8.3.4 - Restricting information system access
12.4.1 - Event logging
12.6.1 - Management of technical vulnerabilities
🟣 PCI DSS v4.0.1
Requirement 2.1 - Default security parameters
Requirement 6.2 - Security patches and updates
Requirement 7 - Restrict access to data
Requirement 8.1 - Assign unique user IDs
Requirement 10.2 - Implement automated audit trails