# CVE-2026-20913: Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Neural Compressor software

> An unprivileged local attacker can escalate privileges in Intel Neural Compressor due to improper input validation, requiring no user interaction.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 12 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gwp5-77p7-mm55

## What is CVE-2026-20913?

CVE-2026-20913 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) Neural Compressor software, published on 11 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Improper input validation for some Intel(R) Neural Compressor software before version v3.7 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. 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 (low), integrity (low) and availability (low) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-20913?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Intel Neural Compressor.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-20913?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-20913 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-20913 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-20913 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Intel(R) Neural Compressor software

- [CVE-2026-20906](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20906/): Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) Neural Compressor software before version v3.6 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-20913 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-20913 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) Neural Compressor software, published on 11 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-20913 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Intel(R) Neural Compressor software. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20913/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20913/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20913
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-20913
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20913

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-20913/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.