Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor Family (E-Core) SPP Protection Mechanism Failure Privilege Escalation Vul
CVE-2024-38660 Published on November 13, 2024
Protection mechanism failure in the SPP for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor family (E-Core) may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-38660 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Protection Mechanism Failure
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. This weakness covers three distinct situations. A "missing" protection mechanism occurs when the application does not define any mechanism against a certain class of attack. An "insufficient" protection mechanism might provide some defenses - for example, against the most common attacks - but it does not protect against everything that is intended. Finally, an "ignored" mechanism occurs when a mechanism is available and in active use within the product, but the developer has not applied it in some code path.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-38660
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Exploit Probability
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