Open CAS Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Open Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) maintained by Intel may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-29523

Description: Improper conditions check in the Open CAS software maintained by Intel® before version 22.3.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 3.3 Low

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected Products:

Open CAS software maintained by Intel before version 22.3.1.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the Open CAS software maintained by Intel to version 22.3.1 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://github.com/Open-CAS/ocf/releases&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Jan Musial 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.