Intel® HAXM Advisory

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in the Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) software may allow escalation of privilege or information disclosure. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2021-0180

Description: Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Intel® HAXM software before version 7.6.6 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable privilege escalation via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.2 Medium

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

CVEID: CVE-2021-0182

Description: Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Intel® HAXM software before version 7.6.6 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.1 Medium

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

Affected Products:

Intel® HAXM before version 7.6.6.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® HAXM software to version 7.6.6 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location: <https://github.com/intel/haxm/releases&gt;

Acknowledgements:

These issues were found externally.

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.