CVE-2025-27725 Race condition in ACAT
An unprivileged local attacker can cause a denial of service in Intel ACAT via a race condition requiring user interaction.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-27725?
CVE-2025-27725 is a medium-severity vulnerability in ACAT, 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
Time-of-check time-of-use race condition for some ACAT before version 3.13 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high 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 active 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-367
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-27725?
How do I fix CVE-2025-27725?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-27725 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-27725 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-27725 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r99q-7c37-5vr3.