A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Intel Server Board, Server System and Compute Module up to 2.44 (Forum Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Bootloader. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in the bootloader for some Intel(R) Server Boards, Server Systems and Compute Modules before version 2.45 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

The weakness was released 08/13/2020 (Website). The advisory is available at intel.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-8710 since 02/06/2020. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2.45 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 159802, 159803, 159804 and 159805.

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• Forum Software

Vendor

• Intel

Name

• Compute Module
• Server Board
• Server System

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44

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• commercial

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