2022.2 IPU – BIOS Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the BIOS firmware for some Intel® Processors may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing BIOS updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2021-33060

Description: Out-of-bounds write in the BIOS firmware for some Intel® Processors 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:

Product Collection

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Vertical Segment

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CPU ID

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Platform ID

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CVE ID

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3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Family

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Server

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5065B

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5065B

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CVE-2021-33060

3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Family

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Server

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606A0
606A4
606A6

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0x87

Recommendations:

Intel recommends that users of Intel® Processors update to the latest version provided by the system manufacturer that addresses these issues.__

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Dmitry Frolov 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.