CVE-2019-11157

Publication date 10 December 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Improper conditions check in voltage settings for some Intel(R) Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure via local access.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
intel-microcode	19.10 eoan	Fixed 3.20191115.1ubuntu0.19.10.1
	19.04 disco	Fixed 3.20191115.1ubuntu0.19.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 3.20191115.1ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 3.20191115.1ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 3.20191115.1ubuntu0.14.04.1

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Notes

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research may call the issue "thundervolt"

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.7 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.7 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-11157