Intel CIP Software prior 2.4.0.11001 access control

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Intel CIP Software. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-24516. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel CIP Software and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Improper access control for some Intel(R) CIP software before version WIN_DCA_2.4.0.11001 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an information disclosure. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data exposure. This result may potentially occur via adjacent 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 (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

It is possible to read the advisory at intel.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-24516 since 01/30/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/14/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.4.0.11001 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-93519). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Intel

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• CIP Software

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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