Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in C++ Compiler (Classic) and Intel oneAPI Toolkits - CVE-2022-25987

 

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in C++ Compiler (Classic) and Intel oneAPI Toolkits - CVE-2022-25987

Published: March 9, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU73209
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25987
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of Unicode encoding in source code to be compiled, which leads to security restrictions bypass and privilege escalation.


Affected software

C++ Compiler (Classic)
Intel oneAPI Toolkits

How to mitigate CVE-2022-25987

Install updates from vendor's website.

C++ Compiler (Classic) - update to 2021.6
Intel oneAPI Toolkits - update to 2022.2

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