CVE-2026-20908
MediumCVSS 5.3Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk0th percentile - higher than 0% of all known CVEs
Summary
A Time-of-check time-of-use race condition in the Intel(R) NPU Driver for Windows may allow a denial of service. An attacker with an authenticated user and a high complexity attack may cause a denial of service. The attack requires local access, no user interaction, and may impact integrity and availability.
Risk Assessment
A denial of service attack could make the system or services unavailable, potentially disrupting organizational operations and causing downtime.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update the Intel(R) NPU Driver to the latest version that fixes the race condition.
Other vulnerabilities in Intel NPU Driver
See all- CVE-2026-20786Medium
Out-of-bounds read in the Intel(R) NPU Driver may allow a denial of service. An attacker with an authenticated user and a low complexity attack may cause a denial of service. The attack requires local access, no user interaction, and may impact integrity and availability.
- CVE-2026-20783Medium
Improper conditions check in the firmware for the Intel(R) NPU Driver may allow a denial of service. An attacker with an authenticated user and a low complexity attack may cause a denial of service. The attack requires local access, no user interaction, and may impact integrity and availability.
- CVE-2026-20769Medium
Improper conditions check in Intel(R) NPU Driver for all versions within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. The attack requires an authenticated user, low complexity, and local access, with no user interaction. The vulnerability impacts integrity (low) and availability (high), but not confidentiality.
- CVE-2026-20731Medium
Improper buffer restrictions in Intel NPU Driver for user applications (Ring 3) may allow denial of service. An unprivileged attacker with an authenticated user and a low complexity attack can cause system unavailability via local access, without user interaction.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS