CVE-2026-20793

low

Published 2026-05-12 · Modified 2026-05-15

CVSS v3

3.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

3.3

Description

Unchecked return value for some Intel(R) QAT software drivers for Windows before version 1.13 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 availability (low) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

34%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secure@intel.com — https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01387.html

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
intel	quickassist_technology	`{"endExcluding":"1.13.0-0021"}`	`1.13.0-0021`

References

https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01387.html

CWEs

CWE-252

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.