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Protection Mechanism Failure

CVE-2024-24980

Medium
6.9/10

Summary

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.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • CHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure

The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published