Intel EquiTriton untrusted search path

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A vulnerability has been found in Intel EquiTriton and classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in untrusted search path. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-28700. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Intel EquiTriton (the affected version unknown). This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a untrusted search path vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Uncontrolled search path for some EquiTriton before version f5ddbb5 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low 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 passive 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.

The advisory is shared at intel.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-28700 since 03/20/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/11/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574 for this issue.

Applying the patch f5ddbb5 is able to eliminate this problem.

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• Intel

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• EquiTriton

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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