CVE-2025-35990: Escalation of Privilege in Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) software
Improper input validation for some Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) software before version 1.14.5 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via adjacent access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability in Intel EMA software prior to version 1.14.5 involves improper input validation in user-mode applications (Ring 3). An unauthenticated attacker with adjacent access and low attack complexity can escalate privileges on the affected system without requiring user interaction or special internal knowledge. The CVSS 4.0 base score is 8.7, reflecting high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability does not affect cloud services and no official remediation level or patch information is currently provided by the vendor.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated, unprivileged attacker with adjacent access to escalate privileges on the affected system, potentially compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability at a high level. However, there are no reported exploits in the wild. The vulnerability affects local systems running vulnerable versions of Intel EMA software prior to 1.14.5.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, restrict access to systems running vulnerable versions of Intel EMA to trusted users and networks to reduce the risk of adjacent access exploitation.
CVE-2025-35990: Escalation of Privilege in Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) software
Description
Improper input validation for some Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) software before version 1.14.5 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via adjacent access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability in Intel EMA software prior to version 1.14.5 involves improper input validation in user-mode applications (Ring 3). An unauthenticated attacker with adjacent access and low attack complexity can escalate privileges on the affected system without requiring user interaction or special internal knowledge. The CVSS 4.0 base score is 8.7, reflecting high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability does not affect cloud services and no official remediation level or patch information is currently provided by the vendor.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated, unprivileged attacker with adjacent access to escalate privileges on the affected system, potentially compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability at a high level. However, there are no reported exploits in the wild. The vulnerability affects local systems running vulnerable versions of Intel EMA software prior to 1.14.5.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, restrict access to systems running vulnerable versions of Intel EMA to trusted users and networks to reduce the risk of adjacent access exploitation.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- intel
- Date Reserved
- 2025-04-15T21:26:44.080Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a036569cbff5d861008d82a
Added to database: 5/12/2026, 5:37:45 PM
Last enriched: 5/12/2026, 5:51:56 PM
Last updated: 5/13/2026, 4:42:22 AM
Views: 4
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