Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility Advisory

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility may allow privilege escalation or information disclosure. Intel is releasing Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-12150

Description: Escalation of privilege in Installer for Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility before 6.4.1.21 may allow an authenticated user to potentially execute code or disclose information as administrator via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.3 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2018-12149

Description: Buffer overflow in input handling in Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility before 6.4.1.21 may allow an authenticated user to potentially deny service to the application via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 6.5 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID: CVE-2018-12151

Description: Buffer overflow in installer for Intel Extreme Tuning Utility before 6.4.1.21 may allow an authenticated user to potentially cause a buffer overflow potentially leading to a denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 3.3 Low

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected Products:

Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility before 6.4.1.23.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends that users of Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility update to 6.4.1.23 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24075/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-Intel-XTU-&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Stefan Kanthak (CVE-2018-12150) and Vyacheslav Rusakov (CVE-2018-12149)** **for reporting and working with us on coordinated disclosure.