Intel System Security Report and System Resources Defense race condition
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability has been found in Intel System Security Report and System Resources Defense and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes race condition. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-49603. The attack is restricted to local execution. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.
Details
A vulnerability has been found in Intel System Security Report and System Resources Defense (the affected version unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Race condition in some Intel(R) System Security Report and System Resources Defense 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. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-49603 since 11/28/2023. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are required 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 05/01/2026).
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
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Product
Type
Vendor
Name
License
Website
- Vendor: https://www.intel.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.8
VulDB Base Score: 6.4
VulDB Temp Score: 6.1
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CNA Base Score: 7.5
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Race conditionCWE: CWE-362
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
11/28/2023 🔍02/12/2025 🔍
02/12/2025 🔍
05/01/2026 🔍
Sources
Vendor: intel.comAdvisory: intel-sa-01203
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2023-49603 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-49603
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-295627
Entry
Created: 02/12/2025 23:23Updated: 05/01/2026 08:47
Changes: 02/12/2025 23:23 (73), 05/01/2026 08:44 (1), 05/01/2026 08:47 (4)
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Committer: lywand
Cache ID: 216::103
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