Intel Driver and Support Assistant up to 25.1 uncontrolled search path

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Intel Driver and Support Assistant up to 25.1. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-30506. The attack requires local access. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Intel Driver and Support Assistant up to 25.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Uncontrolled search path for some Intel Driver and Support Assistant before version 25.2 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated 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 active 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.

It is possible to read the advisory at intel.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-30506 since 03/27/2025. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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 11/13/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 25.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-93494). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Hardware Driver Software

Vendor

• Intel

Name

• Driver and Support Assistant

Version

• 25.0
• 25.1

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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