CVE-2025-20050

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-11-11 · updated 2026-10-19
Weakness: CWE-427

Description

Uncontrolled search path for some Intel(R) CIP software before version WIN_DCA_2.4.0.11001 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable local code execution. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires active 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.

Affected products

Intel(R) Computing Improvement Program Advisory: before 2.4.11001 — fixed in 2.4.11001

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Intel(R) Computing Improvement Program Advisory 2.4.11001. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01328.html

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