CVE-2026-20707

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.86.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 6.8 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.1%, top 100% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.8Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

Hardware logic contains race conditions for some 3rd Gen Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors within Ring 3: unprivileged software may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) impacts.

CVSS v3
6.8
EG Score
6.8(medium)
EG Risk
31(Track)
EG Risk 31/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity68% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
0%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 11, 2026

Last Modified

August 12, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 11, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

INTEL-SA-01443

https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01443.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-20707(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 26× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-21 07:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-08-20 08:53 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-08-20 08:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-19 10:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-18 11:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-17 13:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-08-15 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-08-15 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-14 17:59 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-14 17:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-13 19:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-08-12 21:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-08-12 16:35 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-12 16:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-12 16:04 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-08-12 16:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-08-11 17:45 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-08-11 16:46 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-08-11 16:45 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-20707?
CVE-2026-20707 is a medium vulnerability published on August 11, 2026. Hardware logic contains race conditions for some 3rd Gen Intel(R) Xeon(R) Scalable Processors within Ring 3: unprivileged software may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable denial of service. This…
When was CVE-2026-20707 disclosed?
CVE-2026-20707 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 11, 2026, with the most recent update on August 12, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-20707 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-20707 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 99.9% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-20707?
CVE-2026-20707 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-20707?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-20707, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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