Intel NPU Driver Device Driver unusual condition

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A vulnerability was found in Intel NPU Driver. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Device Driver Handler. The manipulation leads to unusual condition. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-35992. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel NPU Driver (unknown version) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Device Driver Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a unusual condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-754. The product does not check or incorrectly checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that are not expected to occur frequently during day to day operation of the product. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Improper conditions check in some firmware for some Intel(R) NPU Drivers 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 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 shared at intel.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-35992 since 04/15/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/10/2026).

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

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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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