Intel® SSD DC S4500/S4600 Series Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in Intel® Solid State Drives (SSD) for Data Centers (DC) S4500/S4600 Series firmware may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2018-18095

Description: Improper authentication in firmware for Intel® SSD DC S4500 Series and Intel®** **SSD DC S4600 Series before SCV10150 may allow an unprivileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.3 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Products:

Intel® SSD DC S4500 Series firmware before SCV10150.

Intel® SSD DC S4600 Series firmware before SCV10150.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® SSD DC S4500 Series and Intel® SSD DC S4600 Series firmware to SCV10150 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28639/Intel-SSD-Data-Center-Tool-Intel-SSD-DCT-?product=83425&gt;

Acknowledgements:

This issue was** **found internally by Intel.

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.