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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-04 | Published 2026-05-12 | Updated 2026-05-13 | Assigner intel




HIGH: 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

Escalation of Privilege

Untrusted Pointer Dereference

References

intel.com/...en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01387.html

cve.org (CVE-2026-20738)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-20738)

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