Intel VTune Profiler Device Drivers race condition

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A vulnerability described as very critical has been identified in Intel VTune Profiler. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Device Drivers. Such manipulation leads to race condition. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-32670. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel VTune Profiler (unknown version). It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Device Drivers. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-362. The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Time-of-check time-of-use race condition for the Intel(R) VTune(TM) Profiler software within Ring 1: Device Drivers may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low 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 no 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-2026-32670 since 03/13/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. 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 11/10/2026).

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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• Intel

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• VTune Profiler

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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