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CVE-2026-40695 NULL Pointer Dereference

6.8 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (6.8). EPSS 0.1% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

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Null pointer dereference for some Intel(R) Wireless Bluetooth(R) within Ring 0: Kernel may allow a denial of service. Unprivileged software adversary with an authenticated user combined with a low complexity attack may enable denial of service. 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 (none), integrity (none) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.8 medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.1% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 1st percentile. Scored 2026-11-13. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
CWE
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
OWASP Top 10
A10:2025 Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
Modified
Assigned by
intel (CNA)
NVD analysis
Awaiting analysis
Record from
the NVD, synced

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