A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Data Center Manager (DCM) software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.
CVEID: CVE-2022-33942
Description: Protection mechanism failure in the Intel® DCM software before version 5.0 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via network access.
CVSS Base Score: 10.0 Critical
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Intel® DCM software before version 5.0.
Intel recommends updating the Intel® DCM software to version 5.0 or later.
Updates are available for download at this location: <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/645992>
Intel would like to thank Julien Ahrens from RCE Security for reporting this issue.
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