🛡️ CVE-2024-37020

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-37020 is classified as CWE-1281: Sequence of Processor Instructions Leads to Unexpected Behavior. Specific combinations of processor instructions lead to undesirable behavior such as locking the processor until a hard reset performed.

Affected software

CVE-2024-37020 is recorded against 1 package.

• unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 12 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

intel.com
lists.debian.org

Other advisories for this package

unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2022-4995 (9.8 Critical, published 7 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2022-4994 (published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-49900 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-49899 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4990 (published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4989 (published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-50973 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-20572 (published 26 Jun 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-1281: Sequence of Processor Instructions Leads to Unexpected Behavior) in other software:

• CVE-2026-47233 (published 29 May 2026)
• CVE-2025-56301 (7.5 High, published 30 Sep 2025)
• CVE-2025-22840 (7.4 High, published 12 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2023-46103 (4.7 Medium, published 16 May 2024)
• CVE-2023-23583 (8.8 High, published 14 Nov 2023)

CVE-2024-37020 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

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