Intel Performance Counter Monitor prior 202604 untrusted search path

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Intel Performance Counter Monitor. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to untrusted search path. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-32791. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Intel Performance Counter Monitor. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a untrusted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Untrusted search path for some Intel(R) Performance Counter Monitor (Intel(R) PCM) before version tag 202604 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. 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 (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 is handled as CVE-2026-32791 since 03/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. 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). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1574.

Upgrading to version 202604 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Intel

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• Performance Counter Monitor

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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