CVE-2020-8671

CVE-2020-8671 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in the BIOS firmware of 8th and 9th Generation Intel Core Processors and Intel Celeron Processor 4000 Series due to insufficient control flow management. This medium-severity vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 5.5, allows an authenticated local user to potentially gain access to sensitive information. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness. Intel has released firmware updates to address this issue.