CVE-2020-24486 Denial of service in Intel(R) Processors

What is CVE-2020-24486?

CVE-2020-24486 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Cloud Backup, published on 9 Jun 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper input validation in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-24486?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Intel Bios, Netapp Aff Bios, Netapp Cloud Backup, Netapp E-Series Bios, Netapp Fas Bios, Netapp Hci Compute Node Bios and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-24486?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-24486 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-24486 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-24486 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Netapp Cloud Backup

• CVE-2019-14557 Memory corruption in Intel BIOS High 8.0
• CVE-2020-12360 Memory corruption in Intel(R) Processors High 7.8
• CVE-2020-8672 Memory corruption in Intel BIOS Advisory High 7.8
• CVE-2020-8739 Privilege escalation in Intel BIOS platform sample code for some Intel(R) Processors High 7.8
• CVE-2008-7096 Privilege escalation in n/a Medium 6.9

All Netapp Cloud Backup vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rrg4-28hx-w289.