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CVE-2025-3770

SMM IDT Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

HIGH
7
CVSS Score
Published: August 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:20 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorEDK2

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Severity
HIGH7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

EDK2 contains a vulnerability in BIOS where an attacker may cause “Protection Mechanism Failure” by local access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will lead to arbitrary code execution and impact Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

EDK2· Tianocore
60%
v ≤ edk2-stable202505

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/advisories/GHSA-vx5v-4gg6-6qxr

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7HIGHTianoCore
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-693

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