CVE-2026-20906
MediumCVSS 6.7Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs
Summary
Protection mechanism failure in Intel(R) Neural Compressor software before version v3.6 may allow an escalation of privilege. An attacker with a privileged user and a low complexity attack may enable privilege escalation. The attack requires local access, passive user interaction, and may impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Risk Assessment
Privilege escalation could allow an attacker to gain full control over the system, potentially leading to a complete security breach.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update Intel(R) Neural Compressor to version v3.6 or later, which includes a fix for the protection mechanism.
Other vulnerabilities in Intel Neural Compressor
See all- CVE-2026-20913Medium
Improper input validation in Intel(R) Neural Compressor software before version v3.7 may allow an escalation of privilege. An unprivileged attacker with an authenticated user and a low complexity attack may enable privilege escalation. The attack requires local access, no user interaction, and may impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- CVE-2025-27712Medium
Intel(R) Neural Compressor software before version v3.4 contains improper neutralization in Ring 3 (user applications) that may allow privilege escalation. The attack requires an authenticated user, local access, and active user interaction.
Original NVD description (English source)
Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) Neural Compressor software before version v3.6 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires passive user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS