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🛡️ CVE-2025-22889 on Alpine — intel-ucode

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Improper handling of overlap between protected memory ranges for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 processor with Intel(R) TDX may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-22889 as tracked by Alpine, for the package intel-ucode. The fix is available in version 20250812-r0; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: Present — the target has to be in a particular state for the attack to work.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

ALPINE-CVE-2025-22889 is classified as CWE-1260: Improper Handling of Overlap Between Protected Memory Ranges. The product allows address regions to overlap, which can result in the bypassing of intended memory protection.

Affected software

ALPINE-CVE-2025-22889 is recorded against 1 package.

  • intel-ucode (fixed in 20250812-r0)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 August 2025 and last revised on 15 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security.alpinelinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

intel-ucode has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-1260: Improper Handling of Overlap Between Protected Memory Ranges) in other software:

CVE-2025-22889 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-08-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
intel-ucode — 20250812-r0

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