CVE-2025-35990 Privilege escalation in Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) software

What is CVE-2025-35990?

CVE-2025-35990 is a high-severity vulnerability in Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) software, published on 12 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper input validation for some Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) software before version 1.14.5 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via adjacent access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no 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-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-35990?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Intel Endpoint Management Assistant.

How do I fix CVE-2025-35990?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-35990 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-35990 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-35990 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (EMA) software

• CVE-2020-12315 Path traversal in Intel(R) EMA Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-0013 Denial of service in Intel(R) EMA High 7.5
• CVE-2024-32483 Privilege escalation in Intel(R) EMA software High 7.0
• CVE-2020-12316 Information disclosure in Intel(R) EMA Medium 5.5
• CVE-2022-45128 Missing authorization in Intel(R) EMA software Medium 5.0

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jmrj-p723-gwx4.