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CVE-2018-12205

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

Improper certificate validation in Platform Sample/ Silicon Reference firmware for 8th Generation Intel(R) Core(tm) Processor, 7th Generation Intel(R) Core(tm) Processor may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable an escalation of privilege via physical access.

Affected products

• Intel Platform Sample Firmware: all versions
• Intel Silicon Reference Firmware: all versions

References

• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190318-0002/
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03912en_us
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/INTEL-SA-00191.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190318-0002/
• https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbhf03912en_us
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/INTEL-SA-00191.html

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