Potential Escalation of Privilege Vulnerability Affecting Intel Processors

CVE-2023-22655

Summary

A protection mechanism failure has been identified in certain 3rd and 4th Generation Intel Xeon Processors when utilizing Intel SGX or Intel TDX. This flaw allows users with privileged access to potentially escalate their privileges through local access. As a result, this could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information or critical resources within an affected system. System administrators and users operating with these processor generations should be vigilant and consider applying updates or mitigations provided by Intel and other affiliated security advisories.

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