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🛡️ CVE-2025-24495 on Alpine — intel-ucode

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Incorrect initialization of resource in the branch prediction unit for some Intel(R) Core™ Ultra Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-24495 as tracked by Alpine, for the package intel-ucode. The fix is available in version 20250512-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 high, an attacker needs low-level 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 none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/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: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Attack requirements: Present — the target has to be in a particular state for the attack to work.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Affected software

ALPINE-CVE-2025-24495 is recorded against 1 package.

  • intel-ucode (fixed in 20250512-r0)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 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:

CVE-2025-24495 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/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 2025-05-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
intel-ucode — 20250512-r0

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