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CVE-2020-8695

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-8695 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting certain Intel Processors, as well as products from Debian and Fedora Project. It involves an observable discrepancy in the RAPL interface that could allow a privileged local user to potentially disclose sensitive information. The attack requires local access and low privileges, but has high confidentiality impact, as reflected by its CVSS score of 5.5. While not listed on the KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community attention and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-8510y_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i7-8500y_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i5-8310y_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i5-8210y_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:intel:core_i5-8200y_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
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 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 (27)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-73.2.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-73.11.el7_9
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-12.34.el7_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-12.39.el7_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-16.37.el7_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-16.42.el7_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Telco Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-16.37.el7_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-16.37.el7_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.36.el7_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Advanced Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.41.el7_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Telco Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.36.el7_4
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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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-22.36.el7_4
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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
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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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-47.18.el7_6
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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
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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
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-53.13.el7_7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-2:2.1-53.18.el7_7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20200609-2.20201027.1.el8_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20210216-1.20210608.1.el8_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP SolutionsFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20180807a-2.20201112.1.el8_0
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20190618-1.20201112.1.el8_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20190618-1.20210608.1.el8_1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20191115-4.20201112.1.el8_2
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: microcode_ctl-4:20191115-4.20210608.1.el8_2
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-8695Moderate

hw: Information disclosure issue in Intel SGX via RAPL interface

Nov 10, 2020

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00007.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AQ24MFBVH3HJW3PNRQBRY4YXKC7GA57W
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GRFC7UAPKAFFH5WX3AMDUBVHLKYQA2NZ
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MAAGIK5CXKBPGY3R4UR5VO56M7MKLZ43
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NEM2FZWVE4FNGYNQU3WCBAWTZRBWDYUR
intel.com / content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00389
Vendor Advisory