PT-2026-70278 · Intel · Xeon Scalable Processors

CVE-2026-20707

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Published

2026-08-11

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Updated

2026-09-02

CVSS v4.0

6.8

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions 3rd Gen Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors (affected versions not specified)
Description Hardware logic contains race conditions within Ring 3, which is the least privileged level of the CPU execution environment. An authenticated unprivileged local adversary could exploit this through a high complexity attack to cause a denial of service, impacting system availability. This issue requires no user interaction but necessitates special internal knowledge of the hardware.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-20707
OESA-2026-3408
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11599-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21736-1
SUSE-SU-2026:3917-1

Affected Products

Xeon Scalable Processors