CVE-2026-20908General(intel / neural_processing_unit_driver)

LOWCVSS 5.3 · MEDIUM

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

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.

0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-367

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • neural_processing_unit_driver

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors
Products
neural_processing_unit_driver

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-08-14: 108-14
Signal classification1 categories
General
1100.0%
Referenced assets1 URL
Full discourse1 post
  • piotrbednarski@piotr_bednarsk
    General

    Intel would like to thank Piotr Bednarski (CVE-2026-20908) for reporting this issue. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01456.html

    Post summary

    Intel publicly acknowledges a reported CVE and links to its advisory, but provides no technical details, PoC, exploit code, or mitigation information.

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PartVendorProductVersionTarget SWTarget HW
Appintelneural_processing_unit_driver-windows-

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