CVE-2018-3659 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Intel Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME) firmware prior to version 12.0.5 and Intel Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) firmware prior to version 4.0. It allows an unauthenticated attacker with physical access to potentially disclose sensitive information. The CVSS score of 6.8 reflects a physical attack vector with low complexity, leading to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 12.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:intel:converged_security_management_engine_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 4.0CPE 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:H/I:H/A:H
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.