QATzip for Intel® QAT Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the QATzip software maintained by Intel® for Intel® QuickAssist Technology (QAT) may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-36369

Description: Improper access control in some QATzip software maintained by Intel® before version 1.0.9 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.8 High

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

Affected Products:

QATzip software maintained by Intel® before version 1.0.9.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating QATzip software maintained by Intel® for Intel® QAT to version 1.0.9 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location: <https://github.com/intel/QATzip/releases/&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Greg Thomas 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.