CVE-2026-20713

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.5 v4.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-08-11 · updated 2026-08-12
Weakness: CWE-670

Description

Always-incorrect control flow implementation in some firmware for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.

Affected products

Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combi: See references

References

https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01442.html

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