Intel NPU Driver dynamically-managed code resources

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Intel NPU Driver. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to dynamically-managed code resources. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-26405. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel NPU Driver (affected version unknown). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a dynamically-managed code resources vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-913. The product does not properly restrict reading from or writing to dynamically-managed code resources such as variables, objects, classes, attributes, functions, or executable instructions or statements. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at intel.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-26405 since 03/06/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/17/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 275519 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-26405), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (275519). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Hardware Driver Software

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• Intel

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• NPU Driver

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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