PresentMon Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the PresentMon software maintained by Intel® may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-26086

Description: Uncontrolled search path element in the PresentMon software maintained by Intel® before version 1.7.1 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:

PresentMon software maintained by Intel® before version 1.7.1.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the PresentMon software maintained by Intel® to version 1.7.1 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://github.com/GameTechDev/PresentMon/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.