Intel Graphics Driver permission

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A vulnerability was found in Intel Graphics Driver. It has been declared as very critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to permission. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-26052. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Intel Graphics Driver (version now known). It has been rated as very critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Insecure inherited permissions for some Intel(R) Graphics Driver software installers 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 present without special internal knowledge and requires active 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-2026-26052 since 04/02/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. 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 $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 11/10/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

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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• Graphics Driver

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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