🛡️ CVE-2025-35998

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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• 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

CVE-2025-35998 is classified as CWE-1299: Missing Protection Mechanism for Alternate Hardware Interface. The lack of protections on alternate paths to access control-protected assets (such as unprotected shadow registers and other external facing unguarded interfaces) allows an attacker to bypass existing protections to the asset that are only…

Affected software

CVE-2025-35998 is recorded against 1 package.

• unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 10 February 2026 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

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

• CVE-2022-4995 (9.8 Critical, published 7 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2022-4994 (published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-49900 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-49899 (9.8 Critical, published 16 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4989 (published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-4990 (published 3 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-50973 (9.8 Critical, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-20572 (published 26 Jun 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-1299: Missing Protection Mechanism for Alternate Hardware Interface) in other software:

• CVE-2025-41697 (6.8 Medium, published 9 Dec 2025)
• CVE-2025-1073 (7.5 High, published 10 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2024-47944 (6.8 Medium, published 15 Oct 2024)
• CVE-2024-39723 (4.6 Medium, published 8 Jul 2024)
• CVE-2023-29063 (2.4 Low, published 28 Nov 2023)
• CVE-2023-29060 (5.4 Medium, published 28 Nov 2023)
• CVE-2022-43557 (5.3 Medium, published 5 Dec 2022)

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