CVE-2025-20082 (GCVE-0-2025-20082)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-13 21:02 – Updated: 2026-02-26 18:28
VLAI
Summary
Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in the UEFI firmware SmiVariable driver for the Intel(R) Server D50DNP and M50FCP boards may allow a privileged user to enable escalation of privilege via local access.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-16 03:55 UTC
CWE
  • Escalation of Privilege
  • CWE-367 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Intel(R) Server D50DNP and M50FCP boards Affected: See references
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