# CVE-2026-39452: Privilege escalation in Intel(R) Transfer Learning Tool

> An unprivileged attacker can escalate privileges via network access in the Intel Transfer Learning Tool due to a protection mechanism failure.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 12 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-46j3-cwjr-4r6q

## What is CVE-2026-39452?

CVE-2026-39452 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) Transfer Learning Tool, published on 11 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Protection mechanism failure for some Intel(R) Transfer Learning Tool before version v0.7 within Ring 3: User Applications may allow an escalation of privilege. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable escalation of privilege. This result may potentially occur via network access when attack requirements are 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-693 (Protection Mechanism Failure)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-39452?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Intel Transfer Learning Tool.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-39452?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-39452 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-39452 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-39452 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-39452 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-39452 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Intel(R) Transfer Learning Tool, published on 11 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-39452 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Intel(R) Transfer Learning Tool. 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-2026-39452/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-39452/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-39452
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39452
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-39452

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-39452/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.