Insufficient granularity of access control in UEFI firmware in some Intel(R) processors may allow a authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Metrics

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Attack Requirements Present

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact High

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Redhat
  • Enterprise Linux

No data.

Package CPE Advisory Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
microcode_ctl-4:20250211-1.el9_6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 RHSA-2025:7043 2025-05-13T00:00:00Z
References
Link Providers
https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01139.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39279 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39279 cve-icon
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0004}

 epss

{'score': 0.00031}

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00036}

 epss

{'score': 0.0004}

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0005}

 epss

{'score': 0.00036}

Wed, 14 May 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title microcode_ctl: Insufficient granularity of access control in UEFI firmware
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 threat_severity

Moderate

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Insufficient granularity of access control in UEFI firmware in some Intel(R) processors may allow a authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
Weaknesses CWE-1220
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: intel

Published: 2025-02-12T21:19:32.977Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T15:14:16.353Z

Reserved: 2024-06-25T03:00:08.185Z

Link: CVE-2024-39279

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-02-13T15:14:11.265Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-02-12T22:15:35.937

Modified: 2025-02-12T22:15:35.937

Link: CVE-2024-39279

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-02-12T21:19:32Z

Links: CVE-2024-39279 - Bugzilla