Escalation of privilege in Intel Saffron MemoryBase before version 11.4 potentially allows an authorized user of the Saffron application to…

published 2018-08-01 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-15516

cvss: 8.0; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits: 0; none known

Escalation of privilege in Intel Saffron MemoryBase before version 11.4 potentially allows an authorized user of the Saffron application to execute arbitrary code as root.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

intel saffron_memorybase 11.4

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Exploit prediction

0.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.7	AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Intel Corporation Saffron MemoryBase

References

intel.com /content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00136.html
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-3662
NVD CVE-2018-3662

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