A vulnerability was found in Intel Baseboard Management Controller (Forum Software) (the affected version unknown). It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Session Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a session fixiation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-384. Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Insufficient session validation in Intel(R) Baseboard Management Controller firmware may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access.

The weakness was disclosed 11/14/2019. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-11173 since 04/11/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. A authentication is necessary for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/14/2024).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Forum Software

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• Intel

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• Baseboard Management Controller

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• commercial

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