Intel® Battery Life Diagnostic Tool Advisory

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in the Intel® Battery Life Diagnostic Tool software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-36278

Description: Insufficient control flow management in the Intel® Battery Life Diagnostic Tool software before version 2.2.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.2 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2022-34153

Description: Improper initialization in the Intel® Battery Life Diagnostic Tool software before version 2.2.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.2 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2022-36398

Description: Uncontrolled search path in the Intel® Battery Life Diagnostic Tool software before version 2.2.0 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® Battery Life Diagnostic Tool before version 2.2.0.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® Battery Life Diagnostic Tool to version 2.2.0 or later.****

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19521/intel-battery-life-diagnostic-tool.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank pwni (CVE-2022-36398), Hamdan Thabit (CVE-2022-34153, CVE-2022-36278) for reporting these issues.

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.