CVE-2020-12912

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12912

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12912.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed5.9.9.arch1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed5.9.9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed5.9.9-1
debian debianforkyfixed5.9.9-1
debian debiansidfixed5.9.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed5.9.9-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.