Intel® NUC Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the system firmware for Intel® NUC may allow escalation of privilege, denial of service and/or information disclosure. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2019-11140

Description: Insufficient session validation in system firmware for Intel® NUC may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, denial of service and/or information disclosure via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5 High

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

Affected Products:

Affected Product

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Updated Firmware

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Intel® NUC Kit NUC7i7DNx

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BIOS version 0066 or later

Intel® NUC Kit NUC7i5DNx

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BIOS version 0066 or later

Intel® NUC Kit NUC7i3DNx

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BIOS version 0066 or later

Intel® Compute Stick STK2MV64CC

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BIOS version 0060 or later

Intel® Compute Card CD1IV128MK

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BIOS version 0037 or later

Recommendations:

Intel recommends that users update to the latest version (see provided table).

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Dmitry Frolov 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.