CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2022-36392 — Intel Converged Security Management Engine Firmware security vulnerability
Improper input validation in some firmware for Intel(R) AMT and Intel(R) Standard Manageability before versions 11.8.94, 11.12.94, 11.22.94, 12.0.93, 14.1.70, 15.0.45, and 16.1.27 in Intel (R) CSME may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via network access.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 8.6 (3.1)
- Published
- 2023-08-11
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20, CWE-116
Affected products
- intel / converged_security_management_engine_firmware
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Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
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