Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessGain local system access
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DeliveryIdentify privileged user active with LLM-on-Ray
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ExploitWait for passive user interaction (AT:P conditions met)
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ExecutionTrigger protection mechanism failure in Ring 3
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PersistEscalate privileges on vulnerable system
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ImpactAccess confidential data or compromise integrity/availability
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Protection mechanism completeness
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires all of the following concurrently: (1) local access to the system running LLM-on-Ray before version 1.0; (2) a privileged user (PR:H) must be present and passively interacting with the system - passive user interaction (UI:P in CVSS 4.0) means a legitimate privileged user performing normal operations, not an explicitly triggered action; (3) specific attack requirements (AT:P) must be met, meaning non-default conditions or a particular runtime state of LLM-on-Ray must be present - the exact condition is not detailed in the available description, but the AT:P designation confirms that default deployments without the triggering condition are not automatically exploitable. Exploitation is not possible remotely, and requires a pre-existing foothold or co-location on the target system. The AT:P condition and PR:H requirement together meaningfully constrain real-world exploitation beyond what the high C/I/A scores alone suggest. |
| Impact | The provided CVSS 4.0 score of 5.4 reflects the meaningful constraints on exploitation: AV:L (local access only), PR:H (high privileges required), UI:P (passive user interaction needed), and AT:P (specific attack requirements must be present). Despite the High impacts on VC/VI/VA, these prerequisites substantially reduce real-world exploitability. EPSS data was not provided, and the vulnerability is absent from the CISA KEV catalog, suggesting no confirmed or widespread active exploitation. The combination of local-only access, high privilege requirement, passive user interaction, and specific attack conditions (AT:P) means this is not a remotely exploitable opportunistic threat. It is most relevant to environments where LLM-on-Ray is deployed with multiple users or shared privileged accounts. The high C/I/A impact on the vulnerable system is concerning if prerequisites are met, but defenders with properly segmented access controls and principle-of-least-privilege are at substantially lower risk. No CVSS 3.1 vector was provided in the source data - the 4.0 vector is the authoritative scoring. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker - or malicious process running in Ring 3 user space - operating on a system where a privileged user is actively or passively using LLM-on-Ray could exploit the protection mechanism failure to manipulate the privileged user's execution context, escalating their own access. Because AT:P applies, specific attack conditions (such as a particular runtime state or configuration of LLM-on-Ray) must be present alongside the privileged user interaction. No public proof-of-concept exploit has been identified at time of analysis. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 11, 2026
Privilege escalation in Intel's LLM-on-Ray framework before version 1.0 stems from a protection mechanism failure (CWE-693) within Ring 3 user-space components, allowing an attacker with high-privileged user access to escalate privileges on the local system. The attack requires local access, passive user interaction from a privileged user, and specific attack requirements (AT:P), but results in high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact on the vulnerable system with no subsequent system scope change. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and it is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
RemediationAI
The primary remediation is to upgrade LLM-on-Ray to version 1.0 or later, as versions prior to 1.0 are confirmed affected per the Intel advisory INTEL-SA-01493 (https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01493.html). An exact patch release version beyond the 'version 1.0' threshold is not independently confirmed from the provided data - consult the advisory directly for the precise patched build. As compensating controls prior to patching, restrict local system access to LLM-on-Ray deployments to only those users who strictly require it, enforce principle-of-least-privilege so that privileged user accounts interacting with LLM-on-Ray components are tightly scoped, and audit shared or service accounts with elevated rights. Disabling LLM-on-Ray services when not in active use reduces the window during which passive user interaction can be leveraged. Note that these controls reduce exposure but do not eliminate the protection mechanism failure in the software itself.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
LLM-on-Ray is Intel's open-source framework for training and serving large language models atop the Ray distributed computing runtime. The vulnerability resides in Ring 3 (user-space application layer) of the CPU privilege ring model - the least-privileged execution ring where normal user applications run. CWE-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure) indicates that a security control designed to enforce isolation or access separation has been bypassed or is absent, enabling a lower-trust process to leverage a higher-privileged user context in ways the design should have prevented. The affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:n/a:llm-on-ray:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, covering all pre-1.0 builds, as reported by Intel via advisory INTEL-SA-01493.
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CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Local-only vector (AV:L), high privilege prerequisite (PR:H), and passive user interaction (UI:R) confirmed by CVSS 4.0 source vector; scope unchanged as subsequent system impacts are all None.
Primary rating from Vendor (intel).
CVSS VectorVendor: intel
DescriptionCVE.org
Protection mechanism failure for some LLM-on-Ray before version 1.0 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires passive user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
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