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CVE-2022-30944: INTEL-SA-00709

Insufficiently protected credentials for Intel® AMT and Intel® Standard Manageability may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

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Intel® AMT and Intel® Standard Manageability Advisory

Intel ID:

INTEL-SA-00709

Advisory Category:

Firmware

Impact of vulnerability:

Escalation of Privilege, Information Disclosure

Severity rating:

HIGH

Original release:

08/09/2022

Last revised:

08/09/2022

**Summary: **

Potential security vulnerabilities in the Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) and Intel® Standard Manageability may allow escalation of privilege or information disclosure. Intel is releasing prescriptive guidance to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2022-30601

Description: Insufficiently protected credentials for Intel® AMT and Intel® Standard Manageability may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure and escalation of privilege via network access.

CVSS Base Score: 8.8 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

CVEID: CVE-2022-30944

Description: Insufficiently protected credentials for Intel® AMT and Intel® Standard Manageability may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.4 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVEID: CVE-2022-28697

Description: Improper access control in firmware for Intel® AMT and Intel® Standard Manageability may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via physical access.

CVSS Base Score: 7.0 High

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Products:

All versions of Intel® AMT and Intel® Standard Manageability.

Note: Firmware versions of Intel® AMT 3.x through 10.x are no longer supported versions. There is no new general release planned for these versions.

Intel will only provide prescriptive guidance for supported versions; no code changes are planned.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends that users follow the steps below to address these issues:

For Intel® AMT and Intel® Standard Manageability, Intel recommends users follow existing security best practices and alternate security controls, including:

CVE-2022-30944, CVE-2022-30601: Enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Intel® AMT and Intel® Standard Manageability.
CVE-2022-28697: Enable BIOS password protection on the Intel® Management Engine BIOS Extension (Intel® MEBX). Intel recommends end-users to reset and then set non-default password for Intel® AMT or Intel® Standard Manageability immediately following receipt of the system from the systems manufacturer.

Additional guidance is provided at this support page.

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Seth W Dailey (Z-winK) for reporting this issue.

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.

Revision History

Revision

Date

Description

1.0

08/09/2022

Initial Release

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