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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-40427 EUVD-2026-121310GHSA-m5pf-xqpj-qvm6

Use after free for some Intel(R) QuickAssist Technology Driver for Windows within Ring 3: User Applications may allow a denial of service. …

Published Nov 10, 2026 · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by intel

Description

Use after free for some Intel(R) QuickAssist Technology Driver for Windows 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 (low) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Intel(R) QuickAssist Technology Driver for Windows See references —

References