Intel Reference Platform See references UEFI Firmware memory corruption

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Intel Reference Platform See references. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component UEFI Firmware. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-20005. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel Reference Platform See references. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component UEFI Firmware. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Improper buffer restrictions in some UEFI firmware for some Intel(R) reference platforms may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable data manipulation. 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 (high) and availability (low) 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 is handled as CVE-2025-20005 since 10/12/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. 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 03/16/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Intel

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• Reference Platform

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• See references

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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