CVE-2018-12174 — Heap overflow in Intel Trace Analyzer 2018 in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 Upda

Heap overflow in Intel Trace Analyzer 2018 in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 Update 3 may allow an authenticated user to potentially escalate privileges via local access.

01What is this vulnerability?

Heap overflow in Intel Trace Analyzer 2018 in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 Update 3 may allow an authenticated user to potentially escalate privileges via local access.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Intel Corporation	Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018	Update 3 and before

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-11-14T14:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T08:30:58.172Z

09References

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106038
• www.intel.com — https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/INTEL-SA-00180.…