CVE-2025-22850 Race condition in Intel(R) reference platforms may allow an information disclosure. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable data exposure. 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 (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
A race condition in Intel UEFI firmware allows privileged local attackers to disclose sensitive information.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-22850?
CVE-2025-22850 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) reference platforms may allow an information disclosure. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable data exposure. 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 (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts., published on 10 Mar 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in the UEFI PdaSmm module for some Intel(R) reference platforms may allow an information disclosure. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable data exposure. 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 (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Weakness: CWE-367
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22850?
How do I fix CVE-2025-22850?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-22850 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-22850 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22850 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x8hr-gx4m-768c.