Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

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The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5937 advisory.

  - Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated     user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21123)

  - Incomplete cleanup of microarchitectural fill buffers on some Intel(R) Processors may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21125)

  - Incomplete cleanup in specific special register write operations for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an     authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21166)

  - Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the microcode_ctl-20220809-1.el9 build changelog.

  - Insufficient control flow management in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to     potentially enable a denial of service via local access. (CVE-2021-0127)

  - Improper initialization of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2021-0145)

  - Out of bounds read under complex microarchitectural condition in memory subsystem for some Intel Atom(R)     Processors may allow authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure or cause denial of     service via network access. (CVE-2021-33120)

  - Sensitive information accessible by physical probing of JTAG interface for some Intel(R) Processors with     SGX may allow an unprivileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via physical access.
    (CVE-2022-0005)

  - Improper access control for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21131)

  - Improper input validation for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially     enable denial of service via local access. (CVE-2022-21136)

  - Processor optimization removal or modification of security-critical code for some Intel(R) Processors may     allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.
    (CVE-2022-21151)

  - Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3379 advisory.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3379-1                debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                         Tobias Frost     April 01, 2023                                https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
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    Package        : intel-microcode     Version        : 3.20230214.1~deb10u1     CVE ID         : CVE-2022-21216 CVE-2022-21233 CVE-2022-33196 CVE-2022-33972                      CVE-2022-38090     Debian Bug     : 1031334

    Multiple potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel Processors     have been found which may allow information disclosure or may allow     escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate     this potential vulnerabilities.

    Please pay attention that the fix for CVE-2022-33196 might require a     firmware update.

    CVE-2022-21216 (INTEL-SA-00700)         Insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band         management in some Intel(R) Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors         may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of         privilege via adjacent network access.

    CVE-2022-33196 (INTEL-SA-00738)         Incorrect default permissions in some memory controller         configurations for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors when using         Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions which may allow a privileged user         to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

        This fix may require a firmware update to be effective on some         processors.

    CVE-2022-33972 (INTEL-SA-00730)         Incorrect calculation in microcode keying mechanism for some 3rd         Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors may allow a         privileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via         local acces

    CVE-2022-38090 (INTEL-SA-00767)         Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors         when using Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions may allow a privileged         user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

    CVE-2022-21233 (INTEL-SA-00657)         Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors         may allow a privileged user to potentially enable information         disclosure via local access.

    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version     3.20230214.1~deb10u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your intel-microcode packages.

    For the detailed security status of intel-microcode please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/intel-microcode

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS     Attachment:
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Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-055 advisory.

    2024-06-06: CVE-2021-33117 was added to this advisory.

    Improper access control for some 3rd Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors before BIOS version     MR7, may allow a local attacker to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.
    (CVE-2021-33117)

    add (CVE-2022-0005)

    A flaw was found in hw. Improper access control for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors may potentially allow     an authenticated user to enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21131)

    A flaw was found in hw. Improper input validation for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors may allow a     privileged user to enable a denial of service via local access. (CVE-2022-21136)

    A flaw was found in hw. Processor optimization removal or modification of security-critical code for some     Intel(R) processors may potentially allow an authenticated user to enable information disclosure via local     access. (CVE-2022-21151)

    A flaw was found in hw. The APIC can operate in xAPIC mode (also known as a legacy mode), in which APIC     configuration registers are exposed through a memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) page. This flaw allows an attacker     who can execute code on a target CPU to query the APIC configuration page. When reading the APIC     configuration page with an unaligned read from the MMIO page, the registers may return stale data from     previous requests made by the same processor core to the same configuration page, leading to unauthorized     access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5612-1 advisory.

    Pietro Borrello, Andreas Kogler, Martin Schwarzl, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz and Moritz Lipp discovered     that some Intel processors did not properly clear data between subsequent xAPIC MMIO reads. This could     allow a local attacker to compromise SGX enclaves.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of microcode_ctl installed on the remote host is prior to 2.1-47. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1842 advisory.

    2024-02-15: CVE-2022-0005 was added to this advisory.

    Sensitive information accessible by physical probing of JTAG interface for some Intel(R) Processors with     SGX may allow an unprivileged user to potentially enable information disclosure via physical access.
    (CVE-2022-0005)

    A flaw was found in hw. The APIC can operate in xAPIC mode (also known as a legacy mode), in which APIC     configuration registers are exposed through a memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) page. This flaw allows an attacker     who can execute code on a target CPU to query the APIC configuration page. When reading the APIC     configuration page with an unaligned read from the MMIO page, the registers may return stale data from     previous requests made by the same processor core to the same configuration page, leading to unauthorized     access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-129 advisory.

    A flaw was found in hw. The APIC can operate in xAPIC mode (also known as a legacy mode), in which APIC     configuration registers are exposed through a memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) page. This flaw allows an attacker     who can execute code on a target CPU to query the APIC configuration page. When reading the APIC     configuration page with an unaligned read from the MMIO page, the registers may return stale data from     previous requests made by the same processor core to the same configuration page, leading to unauthorized     access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2960-1 advisory.

  - Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2842-1 advisory.

  - Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2838-1 advisory.

  - Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2832-1 advisory.

  - Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2833-1 advisory.

  - Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to     potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2022-21233)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5937 advisory.

    The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers (aka SBDR) (CVE-2022-21123)

    * Incomplete cleanup of microarchitectural fill buffers (aka SBDS) (CVE-2022-21125)

    * Incomplete cleanup in specific special register write operations (aka DRPW) (CVE-2022-21166)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * SolarFlare sfc spurious TX completion (BZ#1793280)

    * Page allocation failure on cryptsetup open (BZ#2072970)

    * The kernel-rt crashes where one task is indefinitely looping in __start_cfs_bandwidth() with the     cfs_b->lock spinlock being held (BZ#2077346)

    * While using PTimekeeper the qede driver produces excessive log messages (BZ#2080646)

    * The kernel crashes due to a GPF happens in mutex_spin_on_owner(). The known RDMA/cma bug that was     introduced with a patch from upstream commit 722c7b2bfead is the possible cause. (BZ#2085425)

    * Running LTP testcase creat09 fails showing related  to 'cve-2018-13405' (BZ#2089360)

    * Crash when releasing inode which was on unmouted superblock (BZ#2096884)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5939 advisory.

    The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with     extremely high determinism requirements.

    Security Fix(es):

    * Incomplete cleanup of multi-core shared buffers (aka SBDR) (CVE-2022-21123)

    * Incomplete cleanup of microarchitectural fill buffers (aka SBDS) (CVE-2022-21125)

    * Incomplete cleanup in specific special register write operations (aka DRPW) (CVE-2022-21166)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * The kernel-rt crashes where one task is indefinitely looping in __start_cfs_bandwidth() with the     cfs_b->lock spinlock being held (BZ#2079976)

    * update to the latest RHEL7.9.z16 source tree (BZ#2100182)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
230003	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-21233	Nessus	Misc.	medium
502957	Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP BIOS Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data (CVE-2022-21233)	Tenable OT Security	Tenable.ot	medium
208624	CentOS 7 : kernel (RHSA-2022:5937)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
191417	CentOS 9 : microcode_ctl-20220809-1.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
173778	Debian dla-3379 : intel-microcode - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
173107	Amazon Linux 2023 : microcode_ctl (ALAS2023-2023-055)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
165109	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Intel Microcode vulnerability (USN-5612-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
165103	Amazon Linux 2 : microcode_ctl (ALAS-2022-1842)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
164708	Amazon Linux 2022 : microcode_ctl (ALAS2022-2022-129)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
164544	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2022:2960-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
164305	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2022:2842-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
164303	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2022:2838-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
164268	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2022:2832-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
164267	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2022:2833-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
163963	RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2022:5937)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
163962	RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2022:5939)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

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