A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Processors may allow information disclosure. Intel is releasing guidance to address this potential vulnerability.
CVEID: CVE-2022-24436
Description: Observable behavioral in power management throttling for some Intel® Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via network access.
CVSS Base Score: 6.3 Medium
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N****
All Intel® Processors are affected.
Intel is providing Software Guidance for cryptographic implementations. Cryptographic developers may choose to follow the guidance to harden their libraries and applications against frequency throttling information disclosure.
Intel would like to thank the following external users for reporting this issue.
Intel would like to thank the following Intel employees for finding this issue internally.
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.