CVE-2025-26405

MediumCVSS 5.9

Published: 11/11/2025(UTC)Updated: 19/10/2026(UTC)Translated: 19/10/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.13%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

Improper control of dynamically-managed code resources in Intel(R) NPU Drivers within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. An unprivileged authenticated user with a low-complexity attack can cause a denial of service via local access, requiring passive user interaction.

Risk Assessment

This can lead to system or application unavailability, disrupting organizational operations. It requires an authenticated user, but the low attack complexity increases the risk.

Recommendation

Update Intel(R) NPU Drivers to the latest version. Monitor local access and restrict user privileges.

Other vulnerabilities in Intel(R) NPU Drivers

CVE-2025-26402Medium
A protection mechanism failure in some Intel(R) NPU Drivers within user applications (Ring 3) may allow a denial of service. An authenticated attacker with low attack complexity can trigger it without user interaction.

Original NVD description (English source)

Improper control of dynamically-managed code resources for some Intel(R) NPU Drivers within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires passive user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

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