CVE-2025-35972 Path traversal in Intel MPI Library
An attacker with local access can exploit uncontrolled search paths in the Intel MPI Library to escalate privileges.
- 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-2025-35972?
CVE-2025-35972 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Intel MPI Library, 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 MPI Library before version 2021.16 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires active 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
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-35972?
How do I fix CVE-2025-35972?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-35972 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-35972 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-35972 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vv32-9hp9-2w9g.