CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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8.0 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Intel BIOS up to Mgm965tw. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Intel Desktop and Intel Mobile Boards with BIOS firmware DQ35JO, DQ35MP, DP35DP, DG33FB, DG33BU, DG33TL, MGM965TW, D945GCPE, and DX38BT allows local administrators with ring 0 privileges to gain additional privileges and modify code that is running in System Management Mode, or access hypervisory memory as demonstrated at Black Hat 2008 by accessing certain remapping registers in Xen 3.3.
The bug was discovered 08/25/2008. The weakness was shared 08/26/2008 by Rafal Wojtczuk (Website). The advisory is shared at security-center.intel.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-7096 since 08/27/2009. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 34099 (Intel System Management Mode Local Privilege Escalation (INTEL-SA-00017)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Misc. and running in the context l.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (44676) and Tenable (34099).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.0
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Exploiting
Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Nessus ID: 34099
Nessus Name: Intel System Management Mode Local Privilege Escalation (INTEL-SA-00017)
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: intel.comAdvisory: security-center.intel.com
Researcher: Rafal Wojtczuk
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-7096 (🔍)
X-Force: 44676
Vulnerability Center: 19569 - Intel Desktop and Mobile Boards Allows Local Attackers to Gain Elevated Privileges, Medium
SecurityFocus: 30823 - Intel System Management Mode Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
OSVDB: 49901 - Intel Mobile Boards System Management Mode Local Privilege Escalation
Entry
Created: 03/18/2015 15:15Updated: 08/17/2019 14:44
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (68), 08/17/2019 14:44 (4)
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