Vulnerability in Intel(r) Pentium(r) Processor Silver Series, Celeron(r) J N Series May Allow An Escalation Of Privilege. Hardware Reverse Engineer Adversary With A Privileged User Combined High Complexity Attack Enable This Result Potentially Occur Via Physical Access When Requirements Are Present Special Internal Knowledge And Requires No Interaction. The Potential Vulnerability Impact Confidentiality (High), Integrity (None) Availability Vulnerable System, Resulting In Subsequent System (High) Impacts.

CVE-2026-20709

Use of Default Cryptographic Key in the hardware for some Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processor Silver Series, Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor J Series, Intel(R) Celeron(R) Processor N Series may allow an escalation of privilege. Hardware reverse engineer adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via physical access when attack requirements are present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.

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