PT-2026-40098 · Intel · Quickassist Technology

Published 2026-05-12 · Updated 2026-05-12 · CVE-2026-20914

Mitre

CVSS v4.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Null pointer dereference for some Intel(R) QAT software drivers for Windows before version 2.6.0 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 (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-20914

Affected Products

Quickassist Technology

References · 2

• https://intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01387.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20914 · Security Note