{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 22 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-0169 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-0169 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-0169 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Wi-Fi in Windows 10 and 11, published on 9 Feb 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-0169 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-0169 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Wi-Fi in Windows 10 and 11, published on 9 Feb 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-0169 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless Wi-Fi in Windows 10 and 11. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-0169/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-0169/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-0169","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-0169/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-0169","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-9cp5-pv5q-cjr3"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Intel Wi-Fi driver","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A local privileged user can escalate privileges via an uncontrolled search path in Intel PROSet/Wireless Wi-Fi software on 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