Intel PROSet/Wireless WiFi up to 23.110.0.5 on Windows Device Driver out-of-bounds write

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A vulnerability was found in Intel PROSet and Wireless WiFi on Windows. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Device Driver Handler. The manipulation results in out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-35971. The attack can only be performed from the local network. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel PROSet and Wireless WiFi on Windows. It has been classified as critical. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Device Driver Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds write vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-787. The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Out-of-bounds write for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software for Windows before version 23.160 within Ring 2: Device Drivers may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. 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 (none), integrity (low) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) impacts.

The advisory is shared for download at intel.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-35971 since 04/15/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. 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 23.160 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Wireless LAN Software

Vendor

• Intel

Name

• PROSet
• Wireless WiFi

Version

• 21.70
• 21.110
• 22.0
• 22.40
• 22.140
• 22.220 HF
• 22.240
• 23.60
• 23.80
• 23.110.0.5

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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