Intel® HAXM Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM) software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-21812

Description: Improper access control in the Intel® HAXM software before version 7.7.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.8 High

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

Affected Products:

Intel® HAXM software before version 7.7.1.

Recommendation:

Intel recommends updating Intel® HAXM software to version 7.7.1 or later.

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

Acknowledgements:

This issue was 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.