ACAT Software Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in some Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT) software maintained by Intel® may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2023-41231

Description: Incorrect default permissions in some ACAT software maintained by Intel® before version 2.0.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7 Medium

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

Affected Products:

ACAT software maintained by Intel® before version 2.0.0.

Recommendation:

Intel recommends updating ACAT software maintained by Intel® to version 2.0.0 or later.

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

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank an external user 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.