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CVE-2018-12202 json

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Platform Sample/ Silicon Reference firmware for 8th Generation Intel(R) Core Processor, 7th Generatio…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-4180

cvss
6.7
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Privilege escalation vulnerability in Platform Sample/ Silicon Reference firmware for 8th Generation Intel(R) Core Processor, 7th Generation Intel(R) Core Processor may allow privileged user to potentially leverage existing features via local access.

Patch / fix

  • intel-microcode Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.20190514.0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • intel-microcode Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 3.20190514.0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • intel-microcode Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 3.20190514.0ubuntu0.18.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12202

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Intel Corporation Intel Platform Sample / Silicon Reference firmware

References

Sources

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