Threats Tagged 'cve-2025-35998'

CVE-2025-35998 is a high-severity escalation of privilege vulnerability affecting Intel(R) Platforms using Intel(R) Quick Assist Technology. The vulnerability arises from a missing protection mechanism in the hardware interface at the kernel level (Ring 0), potentially allowing a privileged local user to escalate privileges with low complexity and no user interaction. The vulnerability impacts confidentiality and integrity of the affected system. Red Hat has issued a security advisory providing a microcode update to address this issue for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0. No known exploits are reported in the wild.

Missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface in the Intel(R) Quick Assist Technology for some Intel(R) Platforms within Ring 0: Kernel may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.