4.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2019-11163

Published: 19/08/2019 Updated: 24/08/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 409
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Insufficient access control in a hardware abstraction driver for Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility for Windows before version 6.1.0731 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, denial of service or information disclosure via local access.

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Recent Articles

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Hot on the heels of Patch Tuesday fixes from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and SAP, Intel has dropped its monthly security bundle to address a series of seven CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its firmware and software. The most serious of the seven is the patch for CVE-2019-11162, a vulnerability in the Intel Compute Improvement Program software. This program is an opt-in diagnostic tool that collects detailed information about the hardware it's running on and less-detailed information about activities ...