A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Open Programmable Acceleration Engine (OPAE) driver for Linux may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.
CVEID: CVE-2020-24485
Description: Improper conditions check in the Intel® FPGA OPAE Driver for Linux before kernel version 4.17 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8 High
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Intel® FPGA OPAE drivers found in the Linux Kernel before version 4.17. The following products are impacted:
Intel recommends updating the Intel® FPGA OPAE driver for Linux to the versions indicated below or later:
The following issue was found internally by Intel employees. Intel would like to thank Thierry Fernandes Faria and Chun Feng.
Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.