CVE-2025-35968
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Publication date: 2025-11-11

Last updated on: 2025-11-12

Assigner: Intel Corporation

Description
Protection mechanism failure in the UEFI firmware for the Slim Bootloader within firmware may allow an escalation of privilege. Startup code and smm adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are 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.
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Published
2025-11-11
Last Modified
2025-11-12
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2026-06-16
AI Q&A
2025-11-11
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-15
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CVE-2025-35968
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CWE ID Description
CWE-693 The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a protection mechanism failure in the UEFI firmware for the Slim Bootloader. It may allow an escalation of privilege by an adversary with local access who has a privileged user account and can perform a high complexity attack. The attack does not require special internal knowledge or user interaction and targets the startup code and system management mode (SMM).

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the vulnerable system at a high level. This means an attacker could potentially gain elevated privileges, compromising system security and stability.

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