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CVE-2025-35973 json

Improper handling of values for some Intel(R) Processors within Ring 0: Kernel, Hypervisor and Bare Metal OS may allow an escalation of pri…

published 2mo ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2025-210692

cvss
4.5
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 0%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Improper handling of values for some Intel(R) Processors within Ring 0: Kernel, Hypervisor and Bare Metal OS may allow an escalation of privilege. Authorized 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 with special internal knowledge and require no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (low), integrity (low) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) impacts.

Patch / fix

  • intel-microcode Debian 14 3.20260925.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-35973

  • microcode_ctl RHEL 9 4:20260210-1.20260812.1.el9_8
  • microcode_ctl RHEL 10.2 4:20260812-0.el10_2
  • microcode_ctl RHEL 8 4:20260812-1.el8_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:68011RHSA-2026:67979RHSA-2026:65147

  • ucode-intel SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 20260812-160000.1.1
  • ucode-intel SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +11 more 20260812-150200.68.1
  • ucode-intel Linux Micro 6.1 20260812-slfo.1.1_1.1
  • ucode-intel Linux Micro 6.0 20260812-1.1
  • microcode_ctl SLES 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE 1.17-102.83.98.1
  • ucode-intel SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5, SLES 12 SP5-LTSS 20260812-164.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23459-1SUSE-SU-2026:23602-1SUSE-SU-2026:4025-1SUSE-SU-2026:4019-1SUSE-SU-2026:23539-1SUSE-SU-2026:23449-1

  • ucode-intel openSUSE Leap 16.0 20260812-160000.1.1
  • ucode-intel openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260812-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21736-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11599-1

  • microcode_ctl AlmaLinux 10 4:20260812-0.el10_2
  • microcode_ctl AlmaLinux 9 4:20260210-1.20260812.1.el9_8
  • microcode_ctl AlmaLinux 8 4:20260812-1.el8_10

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:67979ALSA-2026:68011ALSA-2026:65147

  • microcode_ctl Rocky Linux 10 4:20260812-0.el10_2
  • microcode_ctl Rocky Linux 9 4:20260210-1.20260812.1.el9_8
  • microcode_ctl Rocky Linux 8 4:20260812-1.el8_10

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:67979RLSA-2026:68011RLSA-2026:65147

  • intel-ucode Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +1 more 20260812-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2025-35973

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red hat product security vex CVE-2025-35973 updated cvss 7.2

kernel: hypervisor: Intel Processors: Privilege escalation in Ring 0 via improper value handling

  • Red Hat Confidential Compute Attestation openshift-sandboxed-containers/osc-podvm-payload-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +6 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 kata-containers, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 kata-containers, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) microcode_ctl 20260812-1.el8_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:65147
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) microcode_ctl 20260210-1.20260812.1.el9_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:68011
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 10) microcode_ctl 20260812-0.el10_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:67979
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 rhcos 4.22.9.8.202610241758
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:89197
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 libkrun 1.17.4-1.el10
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 0% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 4.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
CNA 4.0 4.5 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • n/a Intel(R) Processors

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-229 Improper Handling of Values

References

Sources

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