Intel QAT Driver: Untrusted Pointer Deref, DoS Before 2.5.0
CVE-2025-20090 Published on August 12, 2025
Untrusted Pointer Dereference for some Intel(R) QuickAssist Technology software before version 2.5.0 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-20090 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Untrusted Pointer Dereference
The program obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-20090
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Exploit Probability
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