Intel Gaudi Software up to 1.20.x resource consumption

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Intel Gaudi Software up to 1.20.x. The impacted element is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to resource consumption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-27249. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Intel Gaudi Software up to 1.20.x. This vulnerability affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Uncontrolled resource consumption for some Gaudi software before version 1.21.0 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. System software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. 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 (none), integrity (none) 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-2025-27249 since 04/04/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.21.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Intel

Name

• Gaudi Software

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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