It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-189 advisory.

    2024-05-09: CVE-2022-33196 was added to this advisory.

    Insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel(R) Atom and Intel Xeon     Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via adjacent     network access. (CVE-2022-21216)

    Incorrect default permissions in some memory controller configurations for some Intel(R) Xeon(R)     Processors when using Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions which may allow a privileged user to potentially     enable escalation of privilege via local access. (CVE-2022-33196)

    Incorrect calculation in microcode keying mechanism for some 3rd Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable     Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.
    (CVE-2022-33972)

    Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors when using Intel(R) Software Guard     Extensions may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.
    (CVE-2022-38090)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Amazon Linux 2023 : microcode_ctl (ALAS2023-2023-189)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 176950

Version 1.2