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CVE-2020-8696

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-11-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-212

Description

Improper removal of sensitive information before storage or transfer in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31
• Intel Microcode: all versions
• Clustered Data ONTAP: all versions
• NetApp Hci Storage Node Bios: all versions
• NetApp Hcl Compute Node Bios: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire Bios: all versions

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00007.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MAAGIK5CXKBPGY3R4UR5VO56M7MKLZ43/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201113-0006/
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00381
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00007.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MAAGIK5CXKBPGY3R4UR5VO56M7MKLZ43/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201113-0006/
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00381

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