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CVE-2026-80663VulnerabilityPublished Updated

SUSE · Security update for cpupower

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Not known to be exploited.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026, 23:24 UTC

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD

EPSS
0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 2% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 5 Nov 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 6 Nov 2026.

What to do

AI-suggested

Apply the official security update from SUSE that includes the fix for CVE-2026-80663 and other related improvements. Since this is an official fix, deploying the update will mitigate the vulnerability.

Description

A security update for the SUSE cpupower tool addresses CVE-2026-80663, which involves hardening the daemon pidfile open operation in the intel-speed-select component. The update also includes various fixes and improvements to cpupower and turbostat utilities. No CVSS score is provided, but the severity is labeled high.

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