CVE-2025-31146 Race condition in Intel Ethernet Adapter Complete Driver Pack software
An unprivileged user can cause a denial of service in Intel Ethernet Adapter drivers 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-2025-31146?
CVE-2025-31146 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel Ethernet Adapter Complete Driver Pack software, 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 Intel Ethernet Adapter Complete Driver Pack software before version 1.5.1.0 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via adjacent 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-2025-31146?
How do I fix CVE-2025-31146?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-31146 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-31146 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-31146 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wc8c-4m29-mx7f.