CVE-2026-41214
Description
A flaw was found in Intel Neural Compressor. An authenticated local user can exploit improper input validation within user applications to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). Successful exploitation allows an attacker to disrupt service availability and cause minor unauthorized data modifications without requiring user interaction.
Statement
This vulnerability is evaluated as a Moderate severity issue because successful exploitation requires authenticated local access and cannot lead to privileged code execution or confidentiality breaches. The blast radius is confined to disrupting the processing workload or causing minor data corruption within user-space machine learning tasks. In typical Red Hat environments, the library is not part of default system installations and is only present when specialized AI or model optimization toolsets are intentionally installed.
Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).
The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 4.4 | N/A | N/A |
| Attack Vector | Local | N/A | N/A |
| Attack Complexity | Low | N/A | N/A |
| Privileges Required | Low | N/A | N/A |
| User Interaction | None | N/A | N/A |
| Scope | Unchanged | N/A | N/A |
| Confidentiality | None | N/A | N/A |
| Integrity Impact | Low | N/A | N/A |
| Availability Impact | Low | N/A | N/A |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Other
Technical Impact: Varies by Context
When input does not comply with the expected type, attackers could trigger unexpected errors, cause incorrect actions to take place, or exploit latent vulnerabilities that would not be possible if the input conformed with the expected type.
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