Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in Intel Xeon 6 processor with P-cores and Intel Xeon 6 processor family - CVE-2025-22839

 

Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in Intel Xeon 6 processor with P-cores and Intel Xeon 6 processor family - CVE-2025-22839

Published: August 19, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU114208
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22839
CWE-ID: CWE-1220
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Intel
Affected software:
Intel Xeon 6 processor with P-cores
Intel Xeon 6 processor family

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient granularity of access control in the out of band management service module (OOB-MSM). A remote administrator on the local network can gain elevated privileges on the target system.


How to mitigate CVE-2025-22839

Install updates from vendor's website.

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