CVE-2026-20769

MEDIUMNVD 6.16.1—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 6.1 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-11. NVD baseline CVSS 6.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 6.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

Improper conditions check for the Intel(R) NPU Driver for all versions 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.

CVSS v3
6.1
EG Score
6.1MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
28
EG Risk 28/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity61% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
2nd
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 11, 2026

Last Modified

August 31, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 11, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

INTEL-SA-01456

https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01456.html

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-20769(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firmware-nonfree0.1 ... 20260916-1 (205 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
firmware-nonfree0.1 ... 20260410-1~bpo13+1 (197 versions)
  • every version up to 20260410-1: fixed in 20260410-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 72× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 150 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-04 22:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-03 20:58 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-03 20:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  7. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
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  9. 2026-09-30 22:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescore
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  13. 2026-09-29 05:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  16. 2026-09-28 07:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  19. 2026-09-27 10:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
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  22. 2026-09-25 03:54 UTCEG score recompute
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  24. 2026-09-24 14:03 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-09-23 21:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  10. 2026-09-20 02:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  25. 2026-09-13 19:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescore
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  28. 2026-09-12 21:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  31. 2026-09-11 23:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  34. 2026-09-11 00:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  36. 2026-09-10 03:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  38. 2026-09-09 05:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  44. 2026-09-06 21:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
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  47. 2026-09-05 23:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  53. 2026-09-03 00:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  54. 2026-09-02 14:11 UTCEPSS rescore
  55. 2026-09-01 13:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  56. 2026-09-01 13:27 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-01 13:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  58. 2026-08-31 14:30 UTCEG score recompute▼ 0.80
  59. 2026-08-31 14:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-08-31 14:20 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 6.1
  61. 2026-08-31 04:50 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-08-31 04:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
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  74. 2026-08-27 07:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescore

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-20769?
CVE-2026-20769 is a medium vulnerability published on August 11, 2026. Improper conditions check for the Intel(R) NPU Driver for all versions 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…
When was CVE-2026-20769 disclosed?
CVE-2026-20769 was first published on August 11, 2026, with the most recent update on August 31, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-20769 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-20769 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (2nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-20769?
CVE-2026-20769 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.1 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-20769?
No fix for CVE-2026-20769 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-20769 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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