CVE-2019-11171 is a critical heap corruption vulnerability affecting Intel Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve information disclosure, privilege escalation, or denial of service through network access. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, posing a significant risk. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has received some community and media attention, including a mention in Intel's November 2019 platform updates.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:intel:baseboard_management_controller_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.