Denial of service in Intel Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT)

1) Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

EUVDB-ID: #VU119102

Risk: Low

CVSSv4.0: 0.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear]

CVE-ID: CVE-2025-27725

CWE-ID: CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a time-of-check, time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition. A local user can cause a denial of service condition on the target system.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT): before 3.13

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:h:intel:assistive_context-aware_toolkit_acat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01388.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.