CVE-2020-8670 Race condition in Intel(R) Processors

What is CVE-2020-8670?

CVE-2020-8670 is a medium-severity 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

Race condition in the firmware for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8670?

It affects 18 products.

Products include Intel Bios, Netapp Aff Bios, Netapp Cloud Backup, Netapp Fas Bios, Netapp Hci Compute Node Bios, Netapp Hci Storage Node Bios and 12 more.

How do I fix CVE-2020-8670?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-8670 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-8670 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8670 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-4282-5w9g-6q57.