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Vulnerability details: VCID-2bau-t3q4-2fdn
Vulnerability ID VCID-2bau-t3q4-2fdn
Aliases CVE-2020-12912
Summary A potential vulnerability in the AMD extension to Linux "hwmon" service may allow an attacker to use the Linux-based Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface to show various side channel attacks. In line with industry partners, AMD has updated the RAPL interface to require privileged access.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
System Score Found at
cvssv3 5.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-12912.json
epss 0.0084 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-12912
epss 0.0084 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-12912
epss 0.0084 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-12912
cvssv3.1 5.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
archlinux Medium https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1301
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-12912.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-12912
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12912
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
1897402 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897402
AVG-1301 https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1301
USN-4678-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/4678-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2020-12912.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.75072
EPSS Score 0.0084
Published At June 4, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-04T16:43:19.910864+00:00 Debian Importer Import https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/data/json 38.6.0