WULT Software Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Wake Up Latency Tracer (WULT) software maintained by Intel® may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2023-27298

Description: Uncontrolled search path in the WULT software maintained by Intel® before version 1.0.0 (commit id 592300b) may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via network access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.8 High

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

Affected Products:

WULT software maintained by Intel® before version 1.0.0 (commit id 592300b).

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the WULT software maintained by Intel® to version 1.0.0 (commit id 592300b) or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://github.com/intel/wult/commits&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Sanidhya Ved 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.