CVE-2025-35972

State
Published
Severity
5.4 Medium
Published
Nov 11, 2025
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Reserved
Apr 15, 2025

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Description

Uncontrolled search path for the Intel MPI Library before version 2021.16 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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.4 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:Nintel
3.16.7 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hintel

Weaknesses

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Intel MPI Libraryn/a
  • before version 2021.16Affected

References

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