Vulnerability · Published Aug 11, 2026 · Assigned by intel

CVE-2026-20908

Medium 5.8

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Intel(R) NPU Driver for Windows. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 0% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 4.0)5.8Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)<0.1%top 100.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	Intel(R) NPU Driver for Windows	all versions

Weakness: CWE-367 · 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

References

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