Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Intel CSME up to 12.0.48/13.0.20/14.0.10. Affected is an unknown function of the component Subsystem. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-14598. Local access is required to approach this attack. There is no exploit available. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Intel CSME up to 12.0.48/13.0.20/14.0.10. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Subsystem. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Improper Authentication in subsystem in Intel(R) CSME versions 12.0 through 12.0.48 (IOT only: 12.0.56), versions 13.0 through 13.0.20, versions 14.0 through 14.0.10 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, denial of service or information disclosure via local access.

The weakness was released 02/13/2020. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-14598 since 08/03/2019. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

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

If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• Intel

Name

• CSME

Version

• 12.0.0
• 12.0.1
• 12.0.2
• 12.0.3
• 12.0.4
• 12.0.5
• 12.0.6
• 12.0.7
• 12.0.8
• 12.0.9
• 12.0.10
• 12.0.11
• 12.0.12
• 12.0.13
• 12.0.14
• 12.0.15
• 12.0.16
• 12.0.17
• 12.0.18
• 12.0.19
• 12.0.20
• 12.0.21
• 12.0.22
• 12.0.23
• 12.0.24
• 12.0.25
• 12.0.26
• 12.0.27
• 12.0.28
• 12.0.29
• 12.0.30
• 12.0.31
• 12.0.32
• 12.0.33
• 12.0.34
• 12.0.35
• 12.0.36
• 12.0.37
• 12.0.38
• 12.0.39
• 12.0.40
• 12.0.41
• 12.0.42
• 12.0.43
• 12.0.44
• 12.0.45
• 12.0.46
• 12.0.47
• 12.0.48
• 13.0.0
• 13.0.1
• 13.0.2
• 13.0.3
• 13.0.4
• 13.0.5
• 13.0.6
• 13.0.7
• 13.0.8
• 13.0.9
• 13.0.10
• 13.0.11
• 13.0.12
• 13.0.13
• 13.0.14
• 13.0.15
• 13.0.16
• 13.0.17
• 13.0.18
• 13.0.19
• 13.0.20
• 14.0.0
• 14.0.1
• 14.0.2
• 14.0.3
• 14.0.4
• 14.0.5
• 14.0.6
• 14.0.7
• 14.0.8
• 14.0.9
• 14.0.10

License

• commercial

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