Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® and Killer™ Bluetooth® Advisory

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in the installer for some Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® and Killer™ Bluetooth® products may allow escalation of privilege or denial of service. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2021-0151

Description: Improper access control in the installer for some Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® and Killer™ Bluetooth® products in Windows 10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2021-0152

Description: Improper verification of cryptographic signature in the installer for some Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® and Killer™ Bluetooth® products in Windows 10 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 4.6 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Affected Products:

Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® products:

• Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX210
• Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201
• Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX200
• Intel® Wireless-AC 9560
• Intel® Wireless-AC 9462
• Intel® Wireless-AC 9461
• Intel® Wireless-AC 9260
• Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
• Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260
• Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168
• Intel® Wireless 7265 (Rev D) Family
• Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165

Killer™ Bluetooth® products:

• Killer™ Wi-Fi 6E AX1675
• Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650
• Killer™ Wireless-AC 1550

Recommendations:

Windows OS:

Intel recommends updating the affected Intel® Wireless Bluetooth® and Killer™ Bluetooth® products to version 22.60 or later.

Windows 10 updates are available for download at this location:

<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005489/wireless/intel-wireless-products.html&gt;

Updates for Killer™ drivers with Windows 10 are available for download at this location: <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/secure/design/confidential/products-and-solutions/wireless-and-modems/wireless-software/killer-performance-suite.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

These issues were 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.