Intel System Support Utility up to 4.0.x uncontrolled search path

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Intel System Support Utility up to 4.0.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-24842. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Intel System Support Utility up to 4.0.x. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Uncontrolled search path for the Intel(R) System Support Utility before version 4.1.0 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable local code execution. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires passive 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 available at intel.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-24842 since 01/25/2025. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/14/2025). This vulnerability is assigned to T1574 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.1.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-93515). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Intel

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• System Support Utility

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• 4.0

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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