SNS: Vulnerability in Intel Ethernet Controller Firmware of network adapters (CVE-2020-0522)

Advisory ID CVE Number Date discovered Severity Advisory revision
STORM-2020-038 CVE-2020-0522 11/27/2020 high v1

Vulnerability details

Improper initialization in the firmware for the Intel(R) I210 Controller series of network adapters before version 3.30.

May allow a privileged local user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access.

 

Impacted products

ProductsSeverityDetail
Stormshield Network Security high SNS is impacted

Revisions

Version Date Description
v1 11/27/2020 Initial release
v2 03/24/2023 Public release

 



Stormshield Network Security

CVSS v3.1 Overall Score: 7.1      

Analysis

Impacted version

This vulnerability could allow an attacker with a local access (ability to run on SNS his own code or script) to the appliance to potentially enable denial of service.

This vulnerability is useless for an attacker who already have administrator access because an administrator is the highest privileges on the appliance.

As this vulnerability can only be exploited locally, it can not provide an external attacker access to an SNS appliance.

 

The following models are impacted :

  • SN510
  • SN710
  • SN910
  • SN2000
  • SN3000
  • SN2100
  • SN3100

All SNS version prior to 4.4.0

The following models are impacted :

  • SN510
  • SN710
  • SN910
  • SN2000
  • SN3000
  • SN2100
  • SN3100

Workaround solution

Solution

In order to mitigate the risk of exploitation keep your appliance updated.

As stated in the analysis, this vulnerability can only be exploited locally. On SNS, local access are only granted to user with the highest privileges. Therefore an exploitation of this vulnerability is useless to a SNS local user.

Nevertheless, a fix for this vulnerability will be delivered in the version 4.4.0.



Attack Vector Attack Complexity Privileges Required User Interaction Scope Confidentiality Impact Integrity Impact Availability impact
Local Low High None Changed None Low High
CVSS Base score: 6.7 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H)
Exploit Code Maturity Remediation Level Report Confidence
Unproven that exploit exists Official fix Confirmed
CVSS Temporal score: 5.8 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Confidentiality Requirement Integrity Requirement Availability Requirement
High High High
CVSS Environmental score: 7.1 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C/CR:H/IR:H/AR:H/MAV:X/MAC:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MS:X/MC:X/MI:X/MA:X)