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CVE-2024-24980

Public on 2024-08-14
Modified on 2024-08-19
Description

Protection mechanism failure in some 3rd, 4th, and 5th Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 microcode_ctl 2024-10-28 17:34 ALAS-2024-1950
Amazon Linux 2 - Core microcode_ctl 2024-10-24 23:54 ALAS2-2024-2682
Amazon Linux 2023 microcode_ctl 2024-10-24 22:53 ALAS2023-2024-748

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N