Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Manager GUI Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Manager GUI may allow escalation of privilege.** **Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2019-11117

Description: Improper permissions in the installer for Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Manager GUI before version 10.9.2.1.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local attack.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Manager GUI before 10.9.2.1.1.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends that users of Intel® Omni-Path Fabric Manager GUI update to 10.9.2.1.1 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28784/Intel-Omni-Path-Fabric-Manager-GUI?product=92003&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Marius Gabriel Mihai for reporting this issue.

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.