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A vulnerability has been found in Intel Ethernet Adapter and Ethernet Controller I225 Manageability and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-37341. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel Ethernet Adapter and Ethernet Controller I225 Manageability (the affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Improper access control in some Intel(R) Ethernet Adapters and Intel(R) Ethernet Controller I225 Manageability firmware may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

It is possible to read the advisory at intel.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-37341 since 08/02/2022. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/07/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 253381 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-37341), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (253381). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Intel

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• Ethernet Adapter
• Ethernet Controller I225 Manageability

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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