CHIPMAKER Patch Tuesday: Intel and AMD Patch 70 Vulnerabilities reports that on 13 May 2026, SecurityWeek detailed more than two dozen advisories addressing 70 vulnerabilities across Intel and AMD product portfolios. According to SecurityWeek, Intel published 13 advisories describing 24 security defects, including one critical and eight high-severity flaws, with the critical CVE-2026-20794 (CVSS 9.3) involving a buffer overflow in the Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi.
The article notes that Intel also fixed high-severity out-of-bounds write and read weaknesses and other flaws in Vision software, EMA, Slim Bootloader UEFI firmware, and QAT drivers for Windows, among others, with possible DoS, data corruption, disclosure, or privilege escalation consequences.
AMD published 15 advisories covering 45 vulnerabilities, including the critical CVE-2026-0481 (CVSS 9.2) affecting the AMD Device Metrics Exporter in the ROCm ecosystem, which could allow unauthorized changes to GPU configuration via port 50061. The fixes span ASP, GPIO, InstallShield, cloud drivers for ESXi, RAID drivers, chipset and EPYC-related components, and could lead to privilege escalation, arbitrary code execution, or arbitrary read/write access.