Intel AI Containers up to 0.3.x protection mechanism

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A vulnerability was found in Intel AI Containers up to 0.3.x. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to protection mechanism. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-20903. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Intel AI Containers up to 0.3.x and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) AI Containers before version v0.4.0 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. System 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.

The advisory is shared for download at intel.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-20903 since 01/13/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 08/11/2026).

Upgrading to version 0.4.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Artificial Intelligence Software

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• Intel

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• AI Containers

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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