CVE-2024-24980 Privilege escalation in 3rd, 4th, and 5th Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors
A privileged local attacker can escalate privileges on Intel Xeon processors due to a protection mechanism failure.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-24980?
CVE-2024-24980 is a medium-severity vulnerability in 3rd, 4th, and 5th Generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors, published on 14 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-693
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24980?
How do I fix CVE-2024-24980?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2024-24980 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24980 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2024-24980, BELL-CVE-2024-24980, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-24980, GHSA-w5qf-7xgv-ggv8, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-24980.