CVE-2022-33942 is a high-severity protection mechanism failure in Intel Data Center Manager (DCM) software versions prior to 5.0. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with adjacent network access to escalate privileges, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), a Reddit post details a method to bypass authentication by spoofing Kerberos and LDAP responses. Despite its high CVSS score of 8.8, the vulnerability has a low EPSS score and limited community discussion, suggesting it is not widely targeted.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:intel:data_center_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.