Intel PresentMon up to 2.3.0 default permission

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Intel PresentMon up to 2.3.0. It has been rated as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in default permission. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-30518. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Intel PresentMon up to 2.3.0. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a default permission vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-276. During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Incorrect default permissions for some Intel(R) PresentMon before version 2.3.1 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 escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are 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 uniquely identified as CVE-2025-30518 since 04/15/2025. The exploitability is told 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 11/14/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.3.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-93492). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Intel

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• PresentMon

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3.0

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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