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Vulnerability in Intel® RealSense™ Web Component allows authenticated users to elevate privileges via updater subsystem
Intel ID |
INTEL-SA-00066 |
|---|---|
Product family |
Intel® RealSense™ SDK |
Elevation of Privilege |
|
Important |
|
Original release |
Feb 07, 2017 |
Last revised |
Feb 07, 2017 |
Summary:
The vulnerability allows a potentially malicious 3rd party to gain the highest possible elevation of privilege level in the Operating System.
Description:
The vulnerability allows a potentially malicious 3rd party to gain the highest possible elevation of privilege in the Operating System. The root cause of the vulnerability has been identified as an implementation bug in the updater subsystem of the Intel RealSense Web Component.
Intel RealSense Web Component is being discontinued effective February 1st 2017. Customers are strongly encouraged to remove the Intel RealSense Web Component from their system.
Affected products:
Affected Product |
Impacted versions |
Mitigated versions |
Update source |
|---|---|---|---|
Intel® RealSense Web Component |
2016 R2 and earlier |
N/A |
There are no updates planned for this product. Refer to uninstall instructionsfor more information |
Recommendations:
Intel strongly recommends customers impacted by this issue to remove the software per the instructions listed in the table above.
Acknowledgements:
This issue was reported to Intel by Florian Bogner @ Kapsch BusinessCom AG // bogner.sh & kapsch.net
Related Information:
CVE-2016-8101
CVSS v3 score & vectors: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVE Name: CVE-2017-5680
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