CVE-2018-12189: Intel Converged Security Management Engine Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unhandled exception in Content Protection subsystem in Intel CSME before versions 11.8.60, 11.11.60, 11.22.60 or 12.0.20 or Intel TXE before 3.1.60 or 4.0.10 may allow privileged user to potentially modify data via local access.

Affected products

• Intel Converged Security Management Engine Firmware: from 11.0, before 11.8.60 (fixed in 11.8.60); from 11.10, before 11.11.60 (fixed in 11.11.60); from 11.20, before 11.22.60 (fixed in 11.22.60); from 12.0.0, before 12.0.20 (fixed in 12.0.20)
• Intel Trusted Execution Engine Firmware: from 3.0, before 3.1.60 (fixed in 3.1.60); from 4.0, before 4.0.10 (fixed in 4.0.10)

Published 2019-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.