Intel confirms a vulnerability in the ime of its processors

We recently told you about a supposed vulnerability in the IME of Intel processors, something that has finally been confirmed by the company itself so we can officially offer you the details.

Intel processors have a major security issue

All the components of a PC or almost all carry their own firmware, a small operating system that is responsible for their proper functioning on our computers. In the case of Intel processors, the security flaw is in the IME (Intel Management Engine), a security engine that includes all its processors. The problem does not end there since it also affects TXE (Trusted Execution Engine) and SPS (Server Platform Services).

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This is a very important security problem that allows privileges to be escalated with the remote execution of arbitrary code, this means that you do not need to have physical access to the PC, so all users are exposed until the problem is solved. through a BIOS update. The positive part is precisely that the problem can be solved with a firmware update.

The processors affected by this problem are the Intel Core Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, the Atom C3000, the Apollo Lake based J and N series Pentium and Celeron and the Xeon E3-1200 v5 & v6, Xeon Scalable and Xeon W. As we see a very important number of models, so there are millions of vulnerable computers.

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