# CVE-2025-24842: Privilege escalation in Intel(R) System Support Utility

> An uncontrolled search path allows local attackers to escalate privileges and execute code via a high-complexity attack requiring passive user interaction.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h2v4-hrmf-382j

## What is CVE-2025-24842?

CVE-2025-24842 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) System Support Utility, published on 11 Nov 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.

### Official description

Uncontrolled search path for the Intel(R) System Support Utility before version 4.1.0 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable local code execution. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires passive 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.

Weakness: CWE-427 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24842?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-24842?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24842 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-24842 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24842 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-24842 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-24842 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) System Support Utility, published on 11 Nov 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24842 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Intel(R) System Support Utility. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24842/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24842/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24842
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24842
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24842

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-24842/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.