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CVE-2020-7205

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7205 is a local arbitrary code execution vulnerability affecting HPE Intelligent Provisioning, Service Pack for ProLiant, and HPE Scripting ToolKit during the boot process. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.7) requires high privileges and local access, allowing an attacker to achieve full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. HPE has released updates that include a GRUB2 patch and a Forbidden Signature Database (DBX) update to mitigate the issue. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.72CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hpe:intelligent_provisioning:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.81CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hpe:intelligent_provisioning:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2020.03.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hpe:service_pack_for_proliant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 11.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hpe:smartstart_scripting_toolkit:*:*:*:*:*:linux:*:*
<= 3.30.213CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hpe:intelligent_provisioning:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

support.hpe.com / hpsc/doc/public/display
Vendor Advisory