CVE-2026-20908

Time-of-check time-of-use race condition for the Intel(R) NPU Driver for Windows for all versions within Ring 1: Device Drivers may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable denial of service. 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 (none), integrity (low) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

CVSS v3 5.3 MEDIUM

5.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.0 / Impact : 4.2

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01456.html	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:intel:neural_processing_unit_driver:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

History

28 Sep 2026, 16:56

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time		Intel Intel neural Processing Unit Driver
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 5.3
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:intel:neural_processing_unit_driver::::::windows::*
References	~~() https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01456.html -~~	() https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01456.html - Vendor Advisory

Information

Published : 2026-08-11 17:17

Updated : 2026-09-28 16:56

NVD link : CVE-2026-20908

Mitre link : CVE-2026-20908

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-20908

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Products Affected

intel

neural_processing_unit_driver

CWE

CWE-367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

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