Assessment
Why it matters
EPSS is 0.1%; technical severity is CVSS 6.4.
Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Who should care
- Teams operating Celeron 1000m Firmware, Celeron 1005m Firmware, Celeron 1007u Firmware +444 more
- Vulnerability and exposure management teams
- Security operations teams monitoring exploitation activity
Response plan
What I would do
- Confirm whether Celeron 1000m Firmware, Celeron 1005m Firmware, Celeron 1007u Firmware +444 more is present in the environment.
- Identify affected versions and establish whether vulnerable services are exposed or reachable.
- Vendor advisory from www.intel.com
- Review relevant security telemetry for evidence of attempted or successful exploitation.
- Document the remediation decision and track it to verified completion.
Treatment intelligence
Remediation intelligence
Vendor sources are listed before government and third-party guidance. Confirm product applicability and change prerequisites before deployment.
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Technical details
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-367
- Affected versions
- Intel Celeron 1000m Firmware (Version -); Intel Celeron 1005m Firmware (Version -); Intel Celeron 1007u Firmware (Version -); Intel Celeron 1017u Firmware (Version -); Intel Celeron 1019y Firmware (Version -); Intel Celeron 1020e Firmware (Version -); Intel Celeron 1020m Firmware (Version -); Intel Celeron 1037u Firmware (Version -)
- Fixed versions
- No explicit fixed version is currently recorded.
- Published
- 11 November 2022
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
Signal timeline
- CVE published
- Latest EPSS score: 0.1%
- Signal calculated at 10