Intel® Enpirion® Digital Power Configurator GUI Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Enpirion® Digital Power Configurator GUI software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is not releasing updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability and has issued a Product Discontinuation Notice for the Intel® Enpirion® Digital Power Configurator GUI software.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-25999

Description: Uncontrolled search path element in the Intel® Enpirion® Digital Power Configurator GUI software, all versions 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® Enpirion® Digital Power Configurator GUI software, all versions.

Recommendations:

Intel has issued a Product Discontinuation notice for the Intel® Enpirion® Digital Power Configurator** **GUI software and recommends that users of the Intel® Enpirion® Digital Power Configurator GUI software uninstall it or discontinue use at their earliest convenience.

Possible Alternative Workarounds - Intel recommends creating the following directory on the system Intel® Enpirion® Digital Power Configurator is installed: C:\Qt\5.12.9\. And modifying the directory permissions to only allow the following permissions: “Read”, “List folder contents” and “Read & execute” to all users, and only allowing Administrators and trusted account full control.

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.