CVE-2025-20056 Privilege escalation in Intel VTune Profiler
An unprivileged local attacker can escalate privileges and manipulate data in Intel VTune Profiler due to improper input validation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-20056?
CVE-2025-20056 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel VTune Profiler, published on 11 Nov 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Improper input validation for some Intel VTune Profiler before version 2025.1 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low 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 (low) and availability (low) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-20056?
How do I fix CVE-2025-20056?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-20056 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-20056 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-20056 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3gv3-h3vv-27r4.