Hello All,

Searching for information I stumbled upon this info regarding a vulnerability in the IMEI firmware that could give hackers acces to your (G752VY and probably other types as well) notebook. I thought to let you know. How severe this is, I don't know.

Summary: In response to issues identified by external researchers, Intel has performed an in-depth comprehensive security review of our Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS), and Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) with the objective of enhancing firmware resilience.
As a result, Intel has identified security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk.

Description: In response to issues identified by external researchers, Intel has performed an in-depth comprehensive security review of its Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE), and Intel® Server Platform Services (SPS) with the objective of enhancing firmware resilience.
As a result, Intel has identified several security vulnerabilities that could potentially place impacted platforms at risk. Systems using ME Firmware versions 11.0/11.5/11.6/11.7/11.10/11.20, SPS Firmware version 4.0, and TXE version 3.0 are impacted.

Affected products:

• 6th, 7th & 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family
  
• Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1200 v5 & v6 Product Family
  
• Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family
  
• Intel® Xeon® Processor W Family
  
• Intel® Atom® C3000 Processor Family
  
• Apollo Lake Intel® Atom Processor E3900 series
  
• Apollo Lake Intel® Pentium™
  
• Celeron™ N and J series Processors
  

Based on the items identified through the comprehensive security review, an attacker could gain unauthorized access to platform, Intel® ME feature, and 3rd party secrets protected by the Intel® Management Engine (ME), Intel® Server Platform Service (SPS), or Intel® Trusted Execution Engine (TXE).
This includes scenarios where a successful attacker could:

• Impersonate the ME/SPS/TXE, thereby impacting local security feature attestation validity.
  
• Load and execute arbitrary code outside the visibility of the user and operating system.
  
• Cause a system crash or system instability.
  
• For more information, please see this Intel Support article
  

If the INTEL-SA-00086 Detection Tool reported your system being vulnerable, please check with your system manufacturer for updated firmware. Links to system manufacturer pages concerning this issue can be found at http://www.intel.com/sa-00086-support.
If you need further assistance, contact Customer Support to submit an online service request.

Intel has released a downloadable detection tool located at http://www.intel.com/sa-00086-support , which will analyze your system for the vulnerabilities identified in this security advisory.

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00086&languageid=en-fr

Regards.