Name: CVE-2024-24980: Protection Mechanism Failure
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2024-08-14T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2024-24980, CVSS 6.1, EPSS 0.00172

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 4.0 Base Score: 6.9 (MEDIUM)
CVSS 4.0 Vector: (CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X)
CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.1
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade intel-ucode	Oct 1, 2024	Aug 14, 2024
Amazon Linux Ami 2	—	Upgrade microcode_ctl-debuginfoUpgrade microcode_ctl	Nov 4, 2024	Aug 14, 2024
Amazon_linux	—	Upgrade microcode_ctl	Nov 1, 2024	Aug 14, 2024
Debian	—	Upgrade intel-microcode	Sep 2, 2024	Aug 14, 2024
Dell Poweredge Dsa2024308	—	Upgrade Dell PowerEdge to the latest version	Oct 23, 2025	Aug 13, 2024
Freebsd	—	Upgrade cpu-microcode-intel	Aug 14, 2024	Aug 14, 2024
Suse	—	Upgrade ucode-intelUpgrade microcode_ctl	Aug 19, 2024	Aug 14, 2024
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade intel-microcodeUpgrade intel-microcode (Ubuntu Pro)	Aug 20, 2024	Aug 14, 2024

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CVSS Details

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