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.
History

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:45:00 +0000

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Title Race Condition in Intel NPU Driver Allows Unprivileged Local Denial of Service

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

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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.
Weaknesses CWE-367
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 5.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: intel

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-12T15:30:44.394Z

Reserved: 2025-12-19T04:00:14.884Z

Link: CVE-2026-20908

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-12T15:30:37.838Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-08-11T17:17:54.727

Modified: 2026-08-12T20:54:11.500

Link: CVE-2026-20908

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-12T21:30:07Z