Intel® ISPC Software Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2023-38566

Description: Uncontrolled search path in some Intel® ISPC software before version 1.21.0 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:

Intel® ISPC before version 1.21.0.

Recommendation:

Intel recommends updating Intel® ISPC to version v1.21.0 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://github.com/ispc/ispc/releases&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank ycdxsb 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.