VDB-433934 · CVE-2026-40695 · GCVE-0-2026-40695

Intel Wireless Bluetooth null pointer dereference

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Intel Wireless Bluetooth and classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-40695. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Intel Wireless Bluetooth (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Null pointer dereference for some Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R) within Ring 0: Kernel may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. 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 (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

The advisory is available at intel.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-40695 since 05/15/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (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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Productinfo

Vendor

Intel

Name

Wireless Bluetooth

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

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VulDB Temp Score: 5.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Null pointer dereference
CWE: CWE-476 / CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

05/15/2026 CVE reserved
11/10/2026 +179 days Advisory disclosed
11/10/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
11/10/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: intel.com

Advisory: intel.com
Status: Confirmed

CNA: intel
CVE: CVE-2026-40695 (🔒)

GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-40695
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-433934

Entryinfo

Created: 11/10/2026 19:09
Changes: 11/10/2026 19:09 (62)
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Cache ID: 216::103