Local privilege escalation via HAX device access control
Published Aug 18, 2022 · Updated May 5, 2025
Improper access control in Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager before 7.7.1 allows authenticated local users to escalate privileges. The HAX device interface fails to enforce the required access restrictions around privileged hypervisor operations for an authenticated local user. Reaching the condition requires local access to a host running HAXM; successful exploitation can compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the host.
Summary
What happened
Improper access control in Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager before 7.7.1 allows authenticated local users to escalate privileges. The HAX device interface fails to enforce the required access restrictions around privileged hypervisor operations for an authenticated local user. Reaching the condition requires local access to a host running HAXM; successful exploitation can compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the host.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-21812
- Published
- Aug 18, 2022
- Updated
- May 5, 2025
- Vendor
- Intel Corporation
- Product
- Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM)
- Classifications
- CWE-863, T1548
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 18, 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 7.7.1
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