Intel on Tuesday announced the release of patches for multiple vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including a series of high-severity vulnerabilities in the BIOS firmware of several processor models.
A total of nine documented high-severity issues impact multiple Intel Xeon, Pentium Silver, Rocket Lake Xeon, Core, and Core X series processors, the tech giant notes in an
advisory.
The most severe of these are four bugs that could lead to elevation of privilege via local access. Tracked as CVE-2021-0154, CVE-2021-0153, CVE-2021-33123, and CVE-2021-0190, the issues have a CVSS score of 8.2.
