Memory corruption issues in Intel(R) WIFI Drivers before version 21.40 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of priv…

published 2019-11-14 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-2856

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits: 0; none known

Memory corruption issues in Intel(R) WIFI Drivers before version 21.40 may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege, denial of service, and information disclosure via adjacent access.

Patch / fix

fixed in 13

intel wi-fi_6_ax201_firmware 21.40
intel wi-fi_6_ax200_firmware 21.40
intel wireless-ac_9560_firmware 21.40
intel wireless-ac_9462_firmware 21.40
intel wireless-ac_9461_firmware 21.40
intel wireless-ac_9260_firmware 21.40
intel dual_band_wireless-ac_8265_firmware 21.40
intel dual_band_wireless-ac_8260_firmware 21.40
intel dual_band_wireless-ac_3168_firmware 21.40
intel dual_band_wireless-ac_3165_firmware 21.40
intel dual_band_wireless-ac_7265_firmware 21.40
intel dual_band_wireless-n_7265_firmware 21.40
intel wireless-n_7265_firmware 21.40

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Exploit prediction

0.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	5.8	AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

n/a Intel(R) WIFI Drivers and Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software extension DLL

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

intel.com /content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00287.html
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-11152
NVD CVE-2019-11152

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