CVE-2025-26402 — Protection Mechanism Failure in Firmware-nonfree
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 11
Description
Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) NPU Drivers 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 without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and a…
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected Packages1 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-q6mj-q5j8-3m24: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) NPU Drivers within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service↗2025-11-11
OSV▶
CVE-2025-26402: Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) NPU Drivers within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service↗2025-11-11
📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2025-26402: firmware-nonfree - Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) NPU Drivers within Ring 3: User A...↗2025