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CVE-2023-24587 — Intel Optane Memory H20 With Solid State Storage Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.9

Insufficient control flow management in firmware for some Intel(R) Optane(TM) SSD products may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.9 (3.1)
Published
2023-11-14
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-691

Affected products

  • intel / optane_memory_h20_with_solid_state_storage_firmware
  • intel / optane_ssd_900p_firmware
  • intel / optane_ssd_dc_p4800x_firmware
  • intel / optane_ssd_dc_p4801x_firmware
  • intel / optane_ssd_905p_firmware

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

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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