SNS information disclosure (Observable timing discrepancy) in Intel(R) Processors (CVE-2020-24512)

Advisory ID CVE Number Date discovered Severity Advisory revision
STORM-2021-042 CVE-2020-24512 06/30/2021 low v1

Vulnerability details

Observable timing discrepancy in Intel Atom(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

Impacted products

ProductsSeverityDetail
Stormshield Network Security low SNS is impacted

Revisions

Version Date Description
v1  02/09/2022 Reserved publication
v2 24/03/2023 Public publication

 



Stormshield Network Security

CVSS v3.1 Overall Score: 3.2      

Analysis

Impacted version

 

This vulnerability could allow an attacker with a local access (ability to run on SNS his own code or script) to potentially enable information disclosure. 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 :

  • SN1100
  • SN2100
  • SN3100
  • SNS 4.0.0 to 4.2.9
  • SNS 4.3.0 to 4.3.4

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 has been delivered in the following versions :

  • SNS 4.2.9
  • SNS 4.3.4
  • SNS 4.4.0


Attack Vector Attack Complexity Privileges Required User Interaction Scope Confidentiality Impact Integrity Impact Availability impact
Local High Low None Changed Low None None
CVSS Base score: 2.8 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Exploit Code Maturity Remediation Level Report Confidence
Unproven that exploit exists Official fix Confirmed
CVSS Temporal score: 2.5 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Confidentiality Requirement Integrity Requirement Availability Requirement
High High High
CVSS Environmental score: 3.2 CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N/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)