CVE-2025-27560 Denial of service in Intel(R) Platform
A privileged local attacker can trigger an infinite loop in the Intel Platform kernel, causing a denial of service.
- 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-2025-27560?
CVE-2025-27560 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Intel(R) Platform, 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
Loop with unreachable exit condition ('infinite loop') for some Intel(R) Platform within Ring 0: Kernel 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-835
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-27560?
How do I fix CVE-2025-27560?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-27560 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-2025-27560 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-27560 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-88xm-3gm8-p46c.