Intel® Unite® Plugin SDK Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Unite® Plugin Software Development Kit (SDK) may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-32576

Description: Uncontrolled search path in the Intel® Unite® Plugin SDK before version 4.2 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® Unite® Plugin SDK before version 4.2.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the Intel® Unite® Plugin SDK to version 4.2 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18358/28323/intel-unite-app-plug-in-software-development-kit.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank @j00sean 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.