Use of Default Cryptographic Key in the hardware for some Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processor Silver Series, Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor J Series, Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor N Series may allow an escalation of privilege. Hardware reverse engineer adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via physical access when attack requirements are present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.

Project Subscriptions

No data.

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Use of Default Cryptographic Key in the hardware for some Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processor Silver Series, Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor J Series, Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor N Series may allow an escalation of privilege. Hardware reverse engineer adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via physical access when attack requirements are present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.
Weaknesses CWE-1394
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N'}


Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: intel

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T19:50:31.560Z

Reserved: 2026-01-29T03:59:56.230Z

Link: CVE-2026-20709

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-08T19:49:51.606Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-08T19:25:12.600

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:25:12.600

Link: CVE-2026-20709

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses