Intel® XTU Software Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2023-34350

Description: Uncontrolled search path element in some Intel® XTU software before version 7.12.0.15 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:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

Intel® XTU software before version 7.12.0.15.

Recommendation:

Intel recommends updating Intel® XTU software to version 7.12.0.15 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/17881/intel-extreme-tuning-utility-intel-xtu.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank sim0nsecurity 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.