CVE-2022-38102 Denial of service in Intel(R) Converged Security and Management Engine

What is CVE-2022-38102?

CVE-2022-38102 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Intel(R) Converged Security and Management Engine, published on 11 Aug 2023. 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 some Intel(R) Converged Security and Management Engine before versions 15.0.45, and 16.1.27 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-38102?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Intel Converged Security Management Engine Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2022-38102?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-38102 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-38102 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-38102 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Intel(R) Converged Security and Management Engine

• CVE-2019-0153 Memory corruption in Intel(R) Converged Security & Management Engine (CSME) Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-0169 Memory corruption in Intel(R) TXE High 8.8
• CVE-2022-36392 Denial of service in Intel(R) AMT and Intel(R) Standard Manageability in Intel (R) CSME High 8.6
• CVE-2018-3643 Information disclosure in Intel(R) Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME) and Intel(R) Server Platform Services firmware High 8.2
• CVE-2018-3627 Privilege escalation in Intel Converged Security Management Engine (Intel CSME) High 8.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hgxh-jg44-2849.