{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22840 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-22840 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 Scalable processors, published on 12 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22840 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-22840 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 Scalable processors, published on 12 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22840 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 Scalable processors. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22840/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22840/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-22840","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22840/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-22840","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2025-22840","BELL-CVE-2025-22840","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22840","GHSA-rv9h-cmwh-r8m5","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22840"],"analysis":{"component_type":"hardware_firmware","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Intel Xeon processor","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An authenticated local attacker can escalate privileges on Intel Xeon 6 Scalable processors due to unexpected processor instruction behavior.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"intel","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-1281","name":"Sequence of Processor Instructions Leads to Unexpected Behavior"}],"description":"Sequence of processor instructions leads to unexpected behavior for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 Scalable processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 Scalable processors","id":"CVE-2025-22840","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Arkcompiler Ets Runtime has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-22841"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 Scalable processors","id":"CVE-2025-22839"},"products":["Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 Scalable processors"],"published":"2025-08-12","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-02-26","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An authenticated local attacker can escalate privileges on Intel Xeon 6 Scalable processors due to unexpected processor instruction behavior.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22840/"}