CVE-2024-24980

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-693

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.

Affected products

3rd, 4th, and 5th Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors: See references

References

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01100.html

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