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High · 8.4 CVE-2026-50175 EUVD-2026-121666GHSA-mx8j-fvrv-8w95

Untrusted pointer dereference in the FirmwareWakingVector for the Intel(R) Slim Bootloader within Ring 0: Bare Metal OS may allow an escala…

Published Nov 10, 2026 · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Assigned by intel

Description

Untrusted pointer dereference in the FirmwareWakingVector for the Intel(R) Slim Bootloader within Ring 0: Bare Metal OS may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Intel(R) Slim Bootloader See references —

References