CVE-2026-20738
Untrusted pointer dereference for some Intel(R) QuickAssist Adapter 8960 software before version 1.13 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 (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.11%
- CWE
- CWE-822
- Published
- 2026-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-05-13
Affected products
- n/a Intel(R) QuickAssist Adapter 8960 software
Weakness type
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