INTEL SLIM BOOTLOADER · CVE-2026-35500 · Infrastructure
FIX → 9e77d9abb867e7ab4fec8249035cf9ba6550aed7 ✓ verified
A stack-based buffer overflow in the UEFI firmware of Intel's Slim Bootloader lets an attacker with low privileges escalate to Ring 0 on bare-metal systems. The sources describe full confidentiality, integrity and availability impact, and the attack is reported as possible with physical access.
first public Nov 10, 2026 · 2 sources
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Devices that boot Intel Slim Bootloader on the Intel processors listed in INTEL-SA-01526 are affected. Intel rates the attack as physical-access only (CVSS 4.0 AV:P, no privileges, no user interaction), so the risk is mainly for unattended edge, embedded or kiosk hardware. Systems using other firmware (standard UEFI/BIOS, coreboot) can skip it. Intel says it was found internally; no exploitation reported.
Not affected if other-firmware, physical-access-controlled
Who cares bare-metal, embedded, intel, physical-access, slim-bootloader, uefi-firmware
Stack-based buffer overflow in the UEFI firmware for the Intel(R) Slim Bootloader within Ring 0: Bare Metal OS may allow an escalation of privilege. Startup code and smm adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via physical 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 (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) impacts.
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Upgrade to 9e77d9abb867e7ab4fec8249035cf9ba6550aed7
Update Intel Slim Bootloader to the build at commit hash 9e77d9abb867e7ab4fec8249035cf9ba6550aed7 (July 7th, 2026) or later; get firmware from your device/board vendor.