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CVE-2020-8739

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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

Description

Use of potentially dangerous function in Intel BIOS platform sample code for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Affected products

• Intel BIOS: all versions
• NetApp Aff Bios: all versions
• NetApp Fas Bios: all versions
• NetApp Hci Compute Node Bios: all versions
• NetApp Hci Storage Node Bios: all versions
• NetApp Solidfire Bios: all versions

References

• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0008/
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00390
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210122-0008/
• https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00390

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