Intel® Optane™ SSD and Intel® Optane™ SSD DC Firmware Advisory

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel® Optane™ SSD and some Intel® Optane™ SSD DC products may allow escalation of privilege, information disclosure or denial of service. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2023-24587

Description: Insufficient control flow management in firmware for some Intel® Optane™ SSD products may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.9 Medium

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

CVEID: CVE-2023-27519

Description: Improper input validation in firmware for some Intel® Optane™ SSD products may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.9 Medium

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

CVEID: CVE-2023-27879

Description: Improper access control in firmware for some Intel® Optane™ SSD products may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via physical access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.8 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVEID: CVE-2023-27306

Description: Improper Initialization in firmware for some Intel® Optane™ SSD products may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.5 Medium

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

CVEID: CVE-2023-24588

Description: Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor in firmware for some Intel® Optane™ SSD products may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via physical access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.9 Medium

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

Affected Products:

Product Family

• Intel® Optane™ Memory H20 with Solid State Storage
• Intel® Optane™ SSD 9 Series
• Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series
• Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4801X Series

Recommendation:

Intel recommends updating Intel® Optane™ SSD DC and Intel® Optane™ SSD Firmware to the latest version (see provided table).

Product Family - Mitigated versions

• Intel® Optane™ Memory H20 with Solid State Storage - U4110553-G004
• Intel® Optane™ SSD 9 Series - E2010650
• Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series - E2010650
• Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4801X Series - E2010650

Updates are available for download at this location:

• Windows update tool:
  Intel® Memory and Storage Tool (GUI)
• Linux update tool:
  Intel® Memory and Storage Tool CLI (Command-Line Interface)

Acknowledgements:

These issues were found internally by Intel employees.

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.