Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit drivers may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-21229

Description: Improper buffer restrictions for some Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit drivers before version 2.2.0.22 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® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit - LAPQC71B.

Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit - LAPQC71D.

Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit - LAPQC71C.

Intel® NUC 9 Extreme Laptop Kit - LAPQC71A.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the Control Center software for the Intel® NUC9 Extreme Laptop Kits to version 2.2.0.22 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:

<https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19586/control-center-for-the-intel-nuc-9-extreme-laptop-kits.html&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Zimi of Alibaba Orion Security Lab 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.