Unchecked Return Value in Intel Thunderbolt DCH Driver (Win) Allows DoS
CVE-2023-26591 Published on February 14, 2024
Unchecked return value in some Intel(R) Thunderbolt(TM) DCH drivers for Windows before version 88 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via physical access.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-26591 can be exploited with physical access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Unchecked Return Value
The software does not check the return value from a method or function, which can prevent it from detecting unexpected states and conditions. Two common programmer assumptions are "this function call can never fail" and "it doesn't matter if this function call fails". If an attacker can force the function to fail or otherwise return a value that is not expected, then the subsequent program logic could lead to a vulnerability, because the software is not in a state that the programmer assumes. For example, if the program calls a function to drop privileges but does not check the return code to ensure that privileges were successfully dropped, then the program will continue to operate with the higher privileges.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-26591
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Exploit Probability
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