CVE-2024-24980 (GCVE-0-2024-24980)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-14 13:45 – Updated: 2024-08-14 13:59
VLAI
Summary
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
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • escalation of privilege
  • CWE-693 - Protection mechanism failure
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a 3rd, 4th, and 5th Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors Affected: See references
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