Intel® OFU Software Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® One Boot Flash Utility (OFU) software may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-2021-33104

Description: Improper access control in the Intel® OFU software before version 14.1.28 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

Affected Products:

Intel® OFU software before version 14.1.28.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® OFU software to version 14.1.28 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19032/intel-one-boot-flash-update-intel-ofu-utility-for-intel-server-boards-and-intel-server-systems-based-on-intel-62x-chipset.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Rajat Gupta, security researcher at SecLab, UC Santa Barbara, USA 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.