Intel® PM Software Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Performance Maximizer (PM) software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is not releasing updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability and has issued a Product Discontinuation Notice for Intel® PM.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2023-38135

Description: Improper authorization in some Intel® PM software may allow a privileged 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® PM software all versions.

Recommendation:

Intel has issued a Product Discontinuation notice for Intel® PM and recommends that users of the Intel® PM uninstall it or discontinue use at their earliest convenience.

Intel also recommends replacing Intel® PM software with Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) software.

Intel® XTU software is available for download at this location:
<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/17881&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Marius Gabriel Mihai 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.