Intel Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface integer underflow

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Intel Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface up to 1.16.188. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation results in integer underflow. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-63018. Attacking locally is a requirement. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Intel Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface up to 1.16.188. Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer underflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-191. The product subtracts one value from another, such that the result is less than the minimum allowable integer value, which produces a value that is not equal to the correct result. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Integer underflow (wrap or wraparound) for some Intel(R) Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface software before version 1.16.189 within Ring 3: User Applications 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 with special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (low) 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 traded as CVE-2026-63018 since 07/17/2026. The exploitability is told 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).

Upgrading to version 1.16.189 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Intel

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• Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface

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• 1.16.188

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.intel.com/

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