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If you distribute this content you must provide attribution to Intel Corporation and provide a link to the original.", "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "text": "Copyright © Intel Corporation All rights reserved.", "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "publisher": { "category": "vendor", "contact_details": "secure@intel.com", "issuing_authority": "Intel Corporation is responsible for vulnerability handling across all Intel offerings.", "name": "Intel Corporation", "namespace": "https://www.intel.com" }, "tracking": { "id": "INTEL-SA-01372", "initial_release_date": "2026-08-11T00:00:00+00:00", "current_release_date": "2026-08-11T00:00:00+00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-08-11T00:00:00+00:00", "number": "1.0.0", "summary": "Initial release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1.0.0" }, "title": "VRT0010, Intel® Chipset Firmware Advisory", "references": [ { "summary": "Security Center", "url": "https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01372.html" } ], "notes": [ { "title": "Summary", "category": "summary", "text": "A potential security vulnerability for some Intel® Converged Security and Management Engine (Intel® CSME) and Intel® Server Platform Services (Intel® SPS) may allow escalation of privilege. 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Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others." }, { "title": "Recommendation", "category": "details", "text": "Intel recommends that users of Intel® CSME and Intel® SPS update to the latest version provided by the system manufacturer to address this issue." }, { "title": "Severity rating", "category": "details", "text": "Medium" }, { "title": "Advisory Category", "category": "details", "text": "Firmware" }, { "title": "Impact of vulnerability", "category": "details", "text": "Escalation of Privilege" }, { "title": "Contact", "category": "details", "text": "Contact Intel PSIRT at mailto:secure@intel.com with any questions, requests for technical details, or proposed coordination with other parties. Please encrypt any sensitive details using our PGP key, which can be found at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/pgp-public-key.html." } ], "acknowledgments": [ { "names": [ "This issue was found internally by Intel employees. Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available." ] } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-6726", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-704", "name": "Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast" }, "title": "Incorrect type conversion or cast for some Intel® CSME and Intel® SPS within firmware may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data manipulation. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (high) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.", "scores": [ { "cvss_v4": { "attackVector": "LOCAL", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "privilegesRequired": "HIGH", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vulnConfidentialityImpact": "NONE", "vulnIntegrityImpact": "HIGH", "vulnAvailabilityImpact": "NONE", "subConfidentialityImpact": "NONE", "subIntegrityImpact": "HIGH", "subAvailabilityImpact": "NONE", "version": "4.0", "vectorString": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N", "baseScore": 6.8, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM" }, "products": [ "See reference." ] } ], "product_status": { "known_affected": [ "See reference." ] } } ] }