NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A time-of-check time-of-use vulnerability has been identified in the NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows. This issue could allow an attacker to cause a race condition, potentially leading to denial of service, unauthorized privilege escalation, information disclosure, data tampering, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability affects various NVIDIA products, including GeForce, RTX, Quadro, NVS, Tesla, and Virtual GPU Manager, across multiple Windows platforms and driver versions prior to the latest releases.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a denial of service, unauthorized privilege escalation, information disclosure, data tampering, and arbitrary code execution.

Remediation

Users can update to the latest NVIDIA Display Driver versions to address this vulnerability. For specific guidance on updating drivers, refer to the NVIDIA Driver Download page.