CVE-2024-24980

Publication date 14 August 2024

Last updated 3 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that some 3rd, 4th, and 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Processors failed to properly implement a protection mechanism. A local attacker could use this to potentially escalate their privileges.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
intel-microcode	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3.20240813.0ubuntu0.24.04.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.20240813.0ubuntu0.22.04.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.20240813.0ubuntu0.20.04.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.20240813.0ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.20240813.0ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored trusty doesn’t support early microcode loading at runtime

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
intel-microcode	Upstream: cc27f99

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6967-1
Intel Microcode vulnerabilities
20 August 2024