Intel Neural Compressor up to 3.7 privileges management

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Intel Neural Compressor up to 3.7. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-42966. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel Neural Compressor up to 3.7. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Uncaught exception for some Intel(R) Neural Compressor software before version 3.8 within Ring 3: User Applications 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 (low), integrity (low) and availability (low) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

It is possible to read the advisory at intel.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-42966 since 06/04/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/10/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.8 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Intel

Name

• Neural Compressor

Version

• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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