CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-35979

MediumCVSS 6.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.10%

1th percentile - higher than 1% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in some Intel(R) Processors caused by shared microarchitectural predictor state influencing transient execution within VMX non-root (guest) operation may allow information disclosure. An unprivileged authenticated adversary with a high-complexity local attack may expose data.

Risk Assessment

Sensitive data may leak from protected memory regions, posing a high risk to organizations processing confidential information on virtualized systems.

Recommendation

Apply available microcode and firmware updates from the processor vendor and implement speculative execution mitigations (e.g., disabling SMT or using barriers).

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Original NVD description (English source)

Exposure of sensitive information caused by shared microarchitectural predictor state that influences transient execution for some Intel(R) Processors within VMX non-root (guest) operation may allow an information disclosure. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable data exposure. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS