Intel® Processor Advisory

Summary:

Potential security vulnerabilities in some Intel® Processors may allow information disclosure.** **Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2020-24511

Description: Improper isolation of shared resources in some Intel® Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.6 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVEID: CVE-2020-24512

Description: Observable timing discrepancy in some Intel® Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 2.8 Low

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

A list of impacted products can be found here.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends that users of affected Intel® Processors update to the latest version firmware provided by the system manufacturer that addresses these issues.

Intel has released microcode updates for the affected Intel® Processors that are currently supported on the public github repository. Please see details below on access to the microcode:

GitHub*: Public Github: <https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files&gt;__

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Travis Downs for reporting the issue CVE-2020-24512.

Intel would like to thank Joseph Nuzman for reporting the issue CVE-2020-24511.__

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.