# CVE-2018-3649: Privilege escalation in Dual Band Wireless-AC, Tri-Band Wireless-AC and Wireless-AC family of products

> Local attackers can escalate privileges via DLL injection in Intel wireless driver installers, potentially leading to remote code execution.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 May 2018
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4rfh-j7cc-fch4

## What is CVE-2018-3649?

CVE-2018-3649 is a high-severity vulnerability in Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC, Tri-Band Wireless-AC and Wireless-AC family of products, published on 10 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

DLL injection vulnerability in the installation executables (Autorun.exe and Setup.exe) for Intel's wireless drivers and related software in Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC, Tri-Band Wireless-AC and Wireless-AC family of products allows a local attacker to cause escalation of privilege via remote code execution.

Weakness: CWE-427 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-3649?

It affects 18 products.


Products: Intel Dual Band Wireless-Ac 3160, Intel Dual Band Wireless-Ac 3165, Intel Dual Band Wireless-Ac 3168, Intel Dual Band Wireless-Ac 7260, Intel Dual Band Wireless-Ac 7265, Intel Dual Band Wireless-Ac 8260, Intel Dual Band Wireless-Ac 8265, Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7260, Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7265, Intel Tri-Band Wireless-Ac 17265, Intel Tri-Band Wireless-Ac 18260, Intel Tri-Band Wireless-Ac 18265, Intel Wireless-Ac 9260, Intel Wireless-Ac 9461, Intel Wireless-Ac 9462, Intel Wireless-Ac 9560, Intel Wireless-N 7260, Intel Wireless-N 7265.

## How do I fix CVE-2018-3649?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-3649 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2018-3649 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-3649 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2018-3649 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2018-3649 is a high-severity vulnerability in Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC, Tri-Band Wireless-AC and Wireless-AC family of products, published on 10 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-3649 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC, Tri-Band Wireless-AC and Wireless-AC family of products. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-3649/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-3649/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-3649
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3649
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-3649

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