Authenticated adjacent privilege escalation
Published May 12, 2022 · Updated May 5, 2025
Improper input validation in Intel Manageability Commander before 2.2 allows remote authenticated users to escalate privileges via adjacent access. Intel has not disclosed the affected component, accepted input, or validation error that reaches the privilege boundary. Exploitation requires authenticated adjacent access; the resulting elevated privilege level and execution context are not publicly specified.
Summary
What happened
Improper input validation in Intel Manageability Commander before 2.2 allows remote authenticated users to escalate privileges via adjacent access. Intel has not disclosed the affected component, accepted input, or validation error that reaches the privilege boundary. Exploitation requires authenticated adjacent access; the resulting elevated privilege level and execution context are not publicly specified.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-0126
- Published
- May 12, 2022
- Updated
- May 5, 2025
- Vendor
- Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.
- Product
- Intel Manageability Commander
- Classifications
- CWE-20, T1068
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 12, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 5, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=before version 2.2
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