Intel Battery Life Diagnostic Tool 2.4.0 TOCTOU Local Priv Escalation
CVE-2024-41917 Published on February 12, 2025
Time-of-check time-of-use race condition for some Intel(R) Battery Life Diagnostic Tool software before version 2.4.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-41917 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a TOCTTOU Vulnerability?
The software checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the software to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state. This weakness can be security-relevant when an attacker can influence the state of the resource between check and use. This can happen with shared resources such as files, memory, or even variables in multithreaded programs.
CVE-2024-41917 has been classified to as a TOCTTOU vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-41917
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Exploit Probability
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