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CVE-2026-44624 Incorrect Comparison

5.7 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.7). EPSS 0.3% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

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Incorrect comparison in the Ext2 parser for the Intel(R) Slim Bootloader within Ring 0: Bare Metal OS may allow a denial of service. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data corruption. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

5.7 medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.3% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 17th percentile. Scored 2026-11-13. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
CWE
CWE-697 Incorrect Comparison
Published
Modified
Assigned by
intel (CNA)
NVD analysis
Awaiting analysis
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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

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