# Protection mechanism failure in Intel(R) Data Center Attestation Primitives (Intel(R) DCAP) may allow…

CVE record · `CVE-2026-20702`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-20702`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.9 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** intel
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-693](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/693.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-693](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-693.md)
- **Technologies:** [Intel(R) Data Center Attestation Primitives (Intel(R) DCAP) may allow information disclosure. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data exposure. This result may potentially occur via network access when attack requirements are present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (high) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/intel-r-data-center-attestation-primitives-intel-r-dcap-may-allow-information-di.md)
- **Published:** 11 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 12 Aug 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: intel) at 11 Aug 2026, 16:25 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Not given. Product: Intel(R) Data Center Attestation Primitives (Intel(R) DCAP) may allow information disclosure. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data exposure. This result may potentially occur via network access when attack requirements are present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (high) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts..
  - affected: `See references`
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

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## Severity and exploitation

- 8.9 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (intel)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0032, the 25th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 11 Aug 2026, 17:17 UTC: [Confirmed by NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20702)

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-20702](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20702)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-20702](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20702)

### References from the CNA

- <https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01449.html>

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