CVE-2020-0548

21

FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-0548 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting certain Intel processors, stemming from cleanup errors that could allow an authenticated local user to access sensitive information. The attack requires local access and has low attack complexity, with a CVSS score of 5.5. While it has garnered some media attention, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-8700b_firmware:-:::::::*
		Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-8569u_firmware:-:::::::*
		Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7_8650u_firmware:-:::::::*
		Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7_8565u_firmware:-:::::::*
		Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7_8560u_firmware:-:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.52%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

41.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-24

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0052 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 15,903 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (29)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: microcode_ctl-2:1.17-33.26.el6_10

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:1.17-17.31.el6_5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:1.17-19.29.el6_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-61.6.el7_8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-73.11.el7_9

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-12.30.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-12.39.el7_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-16.33.el7_3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-16.42.el7_3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Telco Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-16.33.el7_3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-16.33.el7_3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.32.el7_4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.41.el7_4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.32.el7_4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.41.el7_4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.32.el7_4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.41.el7_4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support(Disable again in 2026 - SPRHEL-7118)Fixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-47.23.el7_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-47.14.el7_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Telco Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-47.23.el7_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-47.23.el7_6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-53.9.el7_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-53.18.el7_7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20191115-4.20200602.2.el8_2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20210216-1.20210608.1.el8_4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20180807a-2.20200609.1.el8_0

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20190618-1.20200609.1.el8_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20190618-1.20210608.1.el8_1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20191115-4.20210608.1.el8_2

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-0548Low

hw: Vector Register Data Sampling

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00016.html

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00019.html

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DT2VKDMQ3I37NBNJ256A2EXR7OJHXXKZ

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5OUM24ZC43G4IDT3JUCIHJTSDXJSK6Y

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20200210-0004

Third Party Advisory

usn.ubuntu.com / 4385-1

debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4701

intel.com / content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00329.html

Vendor Advisory