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.
History

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Intel
Intel slim Bootloader
Vendors & Products Intel
Intel slim Bootloader

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:00 +0000

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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.
Weaknesses CWE-693
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: intel

Published: 2025-11-11T16:51:17.351Z

Updated: 2025-11-14T15:28:10.339Z

Reserved: 2025-04-15T21:13:34.760Z

Link: CVE-2025-35968

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-14T15:22:46.072Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-11-11T17:15:51.357

Modified: 2025-11-12T16:19:34.210

Link: CVE-2025-35968

cve-icon Redhat

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