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CVE-2025-35998

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-35998 is a missing protection mechanism in Intel Quick Assist Technology for certain Intel Platforms, allowing an escalation of privilege within the kernel (Ring 0). This vulnerability affects the confidentiality and integrity of the system, but not its availability. It has a high severity CVSS score of 7.9, requiring local access by a privileged user with special internal knowledge and a low complexity attack. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
N/AIntel(R) Platforms
See referencesCNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

7.0HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
NONE
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
4.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0015 is in the 14th percentile among its peer group of 360 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Fixed in: microcode_ctl
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: microcode_ctl

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2025-35998Important

Intel (R): From CVEorg collector

Feb 10, 2026

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2026:6888
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2025-35998
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.access.redhat.com / data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-35998.json
intel.com / content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01406.html