Out-of-Bounds Read in Intel Prosetwireless Wifi (CVE-2026-20778)
Summary
Vulnerability in Intel Prosetwireless Wifi (CVE-2026-20778). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Out-of-bounds read for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software for Windows within Ring 0: Kernel may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an unauthenticated user combined with a high complexity attack may enable denial of service. This result may potentially occur via adjacent access when attack requirements are 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 (high) impacts.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20778 has been found in Intel Prosetwireless Wifi.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.8/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Intel Prosetwireless Wifi CVE-2026-20778" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-20778 (Intel Prosetwireless Wifi) — CWE-125 / CVSS v3 6.8
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) exists in Intel Prosetwireless Wifi.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Intel Prosetwireless Wifi.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.8/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Intel Prosetwireless Wifi を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web intel.com
- web github.com