Privilege escalation via insufficiently granular access controls
Published Feb 16, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025
Access-control failure in out-of-band management on affected Intel Atom and Xeon Scalable Processors allows attackers to escalate privileges. Intel identifies insufficient access-control granularity but has not disclosed the affected operation or authorization decision. Exploitation requires existing high privileges and adjacent-network access; the resulting management privileges and their precise scope remain undisclosed.
Summary
What happened
Access-control failure in out-of-band management on affected Intel Atom and Xeon Scalable Processors allows attackers to escalate privileges. Intel identifies insufficient access-control granularity but has not disclosed the affected operation or authorization decision. Exploitation requires existing high privileges and adjacent-network access; the resulting management privileges and their precise scope remain undisclosed.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-21216
- Published
- Feb 16, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- T1068
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- Feb 16, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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