Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kits Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kits may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2021-0196

Description: Improper access control in kernel mode driver for some Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kits before version 2.2.0.20 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.8 High

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

Affected Products:

Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit - LAPQC71A

Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit - LAPQC71B

Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit - LAPQC71C

Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit - LAPQC71D

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop software driver kit to version 2.2.0.20 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29624/Control-Center-for-the-Intel-NUC-9-Extreme-Laptop-Kits&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank ZiMi (@YHZX_2013) of Alibaba Orion Security Lab 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.