Intel® FPGA Firmware Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) products may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-38787

Description: Improper input validation in firmware for some Intel® FPGA products before version 2.7.0 Hotfix may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.7 Medium

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

Affected Products:

Intel® Agilex™ 7 FPGA and SoC FPGA product families.

Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA product families.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the affected FPGA product families above to version 2.7.0 HotFix or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

https://github.com/altera-opensource/arm-trustedfirmware

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Christian Lindenmeier and Marcel Busch 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.