CVE-2025-20010highCWE-1104

CVE-2025-20010: high-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.5epss 0.3%
In short

Intel Processor Identification Utility versions before 8.0.43 use outdated third-party code that allows an authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system. This is a serious flaw because an attacker could take control of your computer and access sensitive data.

Technical detail

CVE-2025-20010 exploits unmaintained third-party components in Intel Processor Identification Utility (Ring 3) via local access vector; requires prior system/authenticated user access but no special knowledge. Successful exploitation enables privilege escalation with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the vulnerable system.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
Use of unmaintained third party components for some Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility before version 8.0.43 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local 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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
n/a · Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility