CVE-2025-20037

State: Published
Severity: 6.8 Medium
Published: Aug 12, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Nov 6, 2024

Description

Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in firmware for some Intel(R) Converged Security and Management Engine may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.8 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H	intel
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H	intel

Weaknesses

CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Intel(R) Converged Security and Management Enginen/a	See referencesAffected

References

https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01280.html

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