Intel Processor Identification Utility 6.1.0731/6.4.0603/6.10.34.1129/7.1.6 unmaintained third party components

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Intel Processor Identification Utility. This affects an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to use of unmaintained third party components. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-20010. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel Processor Identification Utility. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use of unmaintained third party components vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-1104. The product relies on third-party components that are not actively supported or maintained by the original developer or a trusted proxy for the original developer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Use of unmaintained third party components for some Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility before version 8.0.43 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not 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.

The advisory is shared for download at intel.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-20010 since 01/07/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 11/11/2025).

Upgrading to version 8.0.43 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Intel

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• Processor Identification Utility

Version

• 6.1.0731
• 6.4.0603
• 6.10.34.1129
• 7.1.6

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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