CVE-2025-27710: intel quickassist_technology Untrusted Pointer Dereference

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-27710 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Untrusted Pointer Dereference vulnerability in intel quickassist_technology. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 11-11-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 12-11-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Untrusted pointer dereference for some Intel(R) QAT Windows software before version 2.6.0. within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an information disclosure. System software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data exposure. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (none) and availability (none) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

• CWE-822Untrusted Pointer DereferenceThe product obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.