CVE-2018-12176 Code injection in Intel(R) NUC Kits and Intel(R) Compute Cards

What is CVE-2018-12176?

CVE-2018-12176 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Intel(R) NUC Kits and Intel(R) Compute Cards, published on 12 Sep 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper input validation in firmware for Intel NUC Kits may allow a privileged user to potentially execute arbitrary code resulting in information disclosure, escalation of privilege and/or denial of service via local access.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12176?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Intel Compute Card Firmware, Intel Compute Stick Firmware, Intel Nuc Kit Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2018-12176?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-12176 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2018-12176 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12176 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Intel(R) NUC Kits and Intel(R) Compute Cards

• CVE-2019-11140 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) NUC Advisory Medium 6.7
• CVE-2019-11123 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) NUC Firmware Medium 6.7
• CVE-2019-11124 Memory corruption in Intel(R) NUC Firmware Medium 6.7
• CVE-2019-11125 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) NUC Firmware Medium 6.7
• CVE-2019-11126 Memory corruption in Intel(R) NUC Firmware Medium 6.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r6mr-vq8c-8r65.