CVE-2020-8739: Intel BIOS

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use of potentially dangerous function in Intel BIOS platform sample code for some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Affected products

• Intel BIOS: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Aff BIOS: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Fas BIOS: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Compute Node BIOS: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Storage Node BIOS: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire BIOS: affected versions not specified

Published 2020-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.