INTEL SLIM BOOTLOADER · CVE-2026-41224 · Infrastructure
FIX → commit 9e77d9abb867e7ab4fec8249035cf9ba6550aed7 (2026-07-07) or later ✓ verified
Out-of-bounds write in the UEFI firmware of Intel Slim Bootloader may allow privilege escalation via physical access (CVSS 4.0 8.6 High, AV:P, no privileges, no user interaction). Found internally by Intel; fixed in the SBL build from commit 9e77d9ab (July 7, 2026) or later. Disclosed in INTEL-SA-01526 together with five other SBL CVEs.
first public Nov 10, 2026 · 2 sources
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Devices that boot with Intel Slim Bootloader on the listed Intel CPUs (embedded, edge, IoT, some mobile/desktop platforms such as Alder Lake, Apollo Lake, Elkhart Lake, Tiger Lake). The attack needs physical access, so risk is mainly for unattended or field-deployed hardware. Systems not using Slim Bootloader (standard BIOS/UEFI from other vendors) can skip it.
Not affected if managed-hosting, no-physical-access, no-slim-bootloader, not-using-slim-bootloader
Who cares firmware, intel, physical-access, slim-bootloader, uefi
Out-of-bounds write 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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