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The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (low) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (none) and availability (none) impacts.","summary":"Some versions of Intel's Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface do not properly null-terminate certain data, so a local unprivileged user-level program can cause a denial of service. The flaw affects availability only; confidentiality and integrity are not affected.","severity":"medium","cvss":4.8,"epss":null,"exploited":false,"exploited_at":null,"products":[{"name":"Intel(R) Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface","fixed":[],"affected":"","ecosystem":"vendor"}],"ecosystems":["vendor"],"tags":["infrastructure","intel","local-users","windows"],"not_affected_if":["no-local-untrusted-users","version-1.16.189-or-later"],"how_to_check":"- Check the installed Intel Metrics Discovery API version against the fixed version below","fix":"- Move to Intel Metrics Discovery API `1.16.189` or later","status":"open","published_at":"2026-11-10T18:17:43+00:00","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T18:22:59+00:00","triaged_at":"2026-11-10T18:26:27+00:00","updated_at":"2026-11-10T18:26:27+00:00","category":"infrastructure","confidence":0.6,"triage":{"at":"2026-11-10T18:26:27Z","model":"claude-haiku-5-5","output":{"fix":"- Move to Intel Metrics Discovery API `1.16.189` or later","reach":"local","title":"Intel Metrics Discovery API: null termination flaw lets a local user crash things","impact":"low","summary":"Some versions of Intel's Metrics Discovery Application Programming Interface do not properly null-terminate certain data, so a local unprivileged user-level program can cause a denial of service. 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