Vulnerability · Published Nov 5, 2020 · Assigned by hpe
CVE-2020-7207
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server Blade; HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 Server; HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server; HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10 Server; HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen10 Server; HPE ProLiant ML110 Gen10 Ser. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 44% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A local elevation of privilege using physical access security vulnerability was found in HPE Proliant Gen10 Servers using Intel Innovation Engine (IE). This attack requires a physical attack to the server motherboard. To mitigate this issue, ensure your server is always physically secured. HPE will not address this issue in the impacted Gen 10 servers listed. HPE recommends using appropriate physical security methods as a compensating control to disallow an attacker from having physical access to the server main circuit board.