CVE-2025-24851 Denial of service in 100GbE Intel(R) Ethernet Controller E810
A privileged local attacker can cause a denial of service in Intel E810 Ethernet Controller firmware via an uncaught exception.
- 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-2025-24851?
CVE-2025-24851 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in 100GbE Intel(R) Ethernet Controller E810, published on 10 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Uncaught exception in the firmware for some 100GbE Intel(R) Ethernet Controller E810 before version cvl fw 1.7.8.x within Ring 0: Bare Metal OS may allow a denial of service. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. 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 (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Weakness: CWE-248
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24851?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Intel Ethernet Controller.
How do I fix CVE-2025-24851?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24851 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-24851 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24851 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in 100GbE Intel(R) Ethernet Controller E810
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pw96-688c-5hrv.