CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-12912

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2020-11-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-203, CWE-749

Description

A potential vulnerability in the AMD extension to Linux "hwmon" service may allow an attacker to use the Linux-based Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface to show various side channel attacks. In line with industry partners, AMD has updated the RAPL interface to require privileged access.

Affected configurations

• amd energy driver for linux

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness
  • CWE-749 Exposed Dangerous Method or Function weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-1256 Improper Restriction of Software Interfaces to Hardware Features weakness

References