CVSS 3.1
6.8 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-8705
Medium (6.8) in intel. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Insecure default initialization of resource in Intel(R) Boot Guard in Intel(R) CSME versions before 11.8.80, 11.12.80, 11.22.80, 12.0.70, 13.0.40, 13.30.10, 14.0.45 and 14.5.25, Intel(R) TXE versions before 3.1.80 and 4.0.30, Intel(R) SPS versions before E5_04.01.04.400, E3_04.01.04.200, SoC-X_04.00.04.200 and SoC-A_04.00.04.300 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privileges via physical access.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-1188
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- intel:converged_security_and_manageability_engine
- intel:server_platform_services
- intel:trusted_execution_technology
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201113-0002/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201113-0004/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201113-0005/
- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00391
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201113-0002/