Intel NPU Drivers protection mechanism

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Intel NPU Drivers. This affects an unknown part. Executing a manipulation can lead to protection mechanism. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-26402. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel NPU Drivers (affected version not known). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a protection mechanism vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-693. The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Protection mechanism failure 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 no 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 was named CVE-2025-26402 since 03/06/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. 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 275518 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-26402), 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 (275518). 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 Drivers

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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