Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2023-41090 is a low-severity Race Condition During Access to Alternate Channel (CWE-421) vulnerability in Intel Memory And Storage Tool. Its CVSS base score is 1.8 (Low).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data Obfuscation (T1001); ranked at the 2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-45610
Vulnerability Data
Race condition in some Intel(R) MAS software before version 2.3 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforcing approved authorizations on every logical access path stops an alternate channel from being reachable by unauthorized actors.
Information-flow rules can be applied to every channel, blocking unintended actors from the alternate path.
Least-privilege limits the set of actors that could exploit an unprotected alternate channel, shrinking blast radius.
Maintaining separate execution domains for each process structurally eliminates unintended concurrent access to the same shared resources.
Preventing unintended information transfer through shared system resources directly addresses the improper concurrent modification that defines a race condition.
Boundary-protection mechanisms control all external and internal interfaces, preventing exposure of an alternate channel.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Enforcing least-privilege access permissions directly prevents unauthorized actors from using an exposed alternate channel.
Protecting networks and environments from unauthorized logical access mitigates exposure of alternate channels.
Integrating secure development practices throughout the SDLC prevents introduction of alternate-channel race conditions.
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Network segmentation and hardening reduce the exposure of alternate channels to unauthorized actors.
Segregating networks limits the reach of alternate communication paths to unintended parties.
Secure development practices can identify and eliminate race conditions involving alternate channels.
A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (defense-in-depth, least privilege, fail securely, assume-breach, distrust-external-input, zero-trust verification) plus design reviews that can identify and block many race-condition-on-alternate-channel flaws, but leaves a bounded remainder (e.g. timing windows in complex concurrent designs or overlooked channels not caught by review).
Hardening callouts derived
DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.
- No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-362, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.