Advisories Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.

CVE record · CVE-2026-20713

Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors may allow an escalation of…: Always-incorrect control flow implementation in some firmware for some Intel(R) Xeon(R)…

CVSS 4.5 MediumEPSS 0.0010 · 1st percentile

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	Product	Versions
Not given	Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.	affected See references Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-20713
CNA: intel
Weakness (CWE): CWE-670
Tags: Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.
CWE-670
Published: 11 Aug 2026
Updated: 12 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
4.5	Medium	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N	CNA (intel)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0010, the 1st percentile, on 5 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

Sources

References from the CNA

intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01442.html

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