CVE-2018-12188 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Intel CSME and TXE firmware versions prior to 11.8.60/11.11.60/11.22.60/12.0.20 and 3.1.60/4.0.10, respectively. It stems from insufficient input validation, allowing an unauthenticated attacker with physical access to potentially modify data. The CVSS score of 4.6 reflects a low attack complexity but a high impact on integrity, requiring physical presence for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 11.0, < 11.8.60CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:intel:converged_security_management_engine_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.10, < 11.11.60CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:intel:converged_security_management_engine_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 11.20, < 11.22.60CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:intel:converged_security_management_engine_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 12.0.0, < 12.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:intel:converged_security_management_engine_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.0, < 3.1.60CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:intel:trusted_execution_engine_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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.