High severity7.4NVD Advisory· Published Aug 12, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-22840
CVE-2025-22840
Description
Sequence of processor instructions leads to unexpected behavior for some Intel(R) Xeon(R) 6 Scalable processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access
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Affected products
29- osv-coords28 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/ucode-intel&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.6pkg:rpm/opensuse/ucode-intel&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/microcode_ctl&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4%20LTSS%20EXTREME%20COREpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%207.1pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.1pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.2pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.3pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.4pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.5pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP6pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP7pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP3-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP4-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP5-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20LTSS%20Extended%20Security%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%20LTS%204.3pkg:rpm/suse/ucode-intel&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%20LTS%204.3
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