CVE-2025-35968 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-35968

Protection mechanism failure in the UEFI firmware for the Slim...

Vulnerability Description

Protection mechanism failure in the UEFI firmware for the Slim Bootloader within firmware may allow an escalation of privilege. Startup code and smm adversary with a privileged user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Slim Bootloader
Vulnerable Versions:
See references

Timeline

Official Publish: November 11th, 2025
Last Modified: November 14th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)