NVIDIA Installer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the NVIDIA Installer for Windows allows an attacker to escalate privileges. Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to unauthorized privilege elevation, denial of service, arbitrary code execution, information disclosure, and data tampering.

Impact

Successful exploitation could result in unauthorized privilege escalation, denial of service, arbitrary code execution, unauthorized information disclosure, and unauthorized data modification.

Remediation

Users can download and install the latest NVIDIA GPU Display Driver versions from the NVIDIA Driver Downloads page. For vGPU software updates, visit the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.

Added: Aug 2, 2025, 10:32 PM
Updated: Aug 2, 2025, 10:32 PM

Vulnerability Rating

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spread
0.0
impact
10.0
exploitability
3.3
remediation
7.7
relevance
0.3
threat
0.0
urgency
2.9
incentive
0.8

Our algorithm analyzes dozens of metrics to generate these 8 key vulnerability categories, which are then combined to calculate the overall risk score.