Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-68993 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-68993 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-68993?
- Informational severity, published 5 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- NPU driver.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-68993?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-68993 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in device firmware.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-68993?
- Check whether you run NPU driver. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A double free vulnerability occurs in the NPU driver due to improper pointer management, where a memory region is freed more than once. This can lead to heap corruption and may allow an attacker with local access to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve code execution, depending on heap implementation details and exploit complexity.
Affected products
- NPU driver
Timeline
- 2026-11-05: disclosed