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Intel BIOS Firmware DoS (INTEL-SA-00813) (CVE-2022-43505)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179946

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Synopsis

The BIOS firmware on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

Insufficient control flow management in the BIOS firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access. (CVE-2022-43505)

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

Solution

Contact your system OEM for updated firmware per the vendor advisory.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3f552fd5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179946

File Name: intel_sa_00813_cve-2022-43505.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 8/18/2023

Updated: 8/21/2023

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-43505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/h:intel, cpe:/o:intel, cpe:/a:intel

Required KB Items: SMB/WMI/Available, Settings/ParanoidReport

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-43505

IAVA: 2023-A-0426