Intel® Advisor Software Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Advisor software may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.****

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2021-23152

Description: Improper access control in the Intel® Advisor software before version 2021.2 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® Advisor software before version 2021.2.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating Intel® Advisor software to version 2021.2 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location: <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/oneapi-standalone-components.html#advisor&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.