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CVE-2023-34349: Race condition in some Intel(R) NUC BIOS firmware may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 25/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.11% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Race condition in some Intel(R) NUC BIOS firmware may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

MediumCVSS 6.4 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Aug 10, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 1th percentile

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Action score

25

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
25 / 40 · 6.4 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
6.4
CNA · intel
4.6
1.8 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnh firmware
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnh
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnhf firmware
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnhf
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnhfa firmware
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnhfa
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnhja firmware
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnhja
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnhn firmware
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnhn
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnk firmware
intelnuc performance kit and mini pc nuc10i3fnk

and 188 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • intel nuc 11 compute element cm11ebc4w firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 compute element cm11ebi38w firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 compute element cm11ebi58w firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 compute element cm11ebi716w firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11pahi3 firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11pahi30z firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11pahi5 firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11pahi50z firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11pahi7 firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11pahi70z firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11paki3 firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11paki5 firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11paki7 firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11paqi50wa firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance kit nuc11paqi70qa firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance mini pc nuc11pahi3 firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance mini pc nuc11pahi30z firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance mini pc nuc11pahi5 firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance mini pc nuc11pahi50z firmwareall versions
  • intel nuc 11 performance mini pc nuc11pahi7 firmwareall versions

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (intel). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • n/a Intel(R) NUC BIOS firmware

    • See referencesaffected

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-421 · Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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