Intel® XTU Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-22139

Description: Uncontrolled search path in the Intel® XTU software before version 7.3.0.33 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

Affected Products:

Intel® XTU software before version 7.3.0.33.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the Intel® XTU software to version 7.3.0.33 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/17881/intel-extreme-tuning-utility-intel-xtu.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Marius Gabriel Mihai 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.