CVE-2025-35998
HIGHIntel(R) Quick Assist Technology - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
Missing protection mechanism for alternate hardware interface in the Intel(R) Quick Assist Technology for some Intel(R) Platforms within Ring 0: Kernel may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6888
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-35998
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2438523
Scores
CVSS v3
7.9
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
4.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-1220
CWE-1299
Status
published
Products (1)
None/Intel(R) Platforms
See references
Published
Feb 10, 2026
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026