Intel Pentium/Celeron/Atom/E3900 Key access control

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Intel Pentium, Celeron, Atom and E3900. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Key Handler. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-0120. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel Pentium, Celeron, Atom and E3900 (Chip Software) (the affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Key Handler. 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 availability. CVE summarizes:

Insufficient key protection vulnerability in silicon reference firmware for Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processor J Series, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processor N Series, Intel(R) Celeron(R) J Series, Intel(R) Celeron(R) N Series, Intel(R) Atom(R) Processor A Series, Intel(R) Atom(R) Processor E3900 Series, Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processor Silver Series may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

The bug was discovered 05/14/2019. The weakness was shared 05/17/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-0120 since 11/13/2018. 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. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/21/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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

The entries VDB-135193 and VDB-135195 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Chip Software

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• Intel

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• Atom
• Celeron
• E3900
• Pentium

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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