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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2019-11114 – Intel Driver Support & Assistance – Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

The Intel Driver & Support Assistant Software, which allows users to update their drivers and software on Intel-based machines – suffers from a number of logic based issues which result in both arbitrary file read and write as SYSTEM. This can be exploited by a low privileged local attacker to achieve local privilege escalation.

Impact

Privilege escalation

Affected Vendors

Intel

Affected Products

Intel Driver Support & Assistance prior to version 19.4.18

Remediation

Upgrade Intel DSA version 19.4.18, or newer.

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