CVE-2025-23309 (GCVE-0-2025-23309)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-10 17:40 – Updated: 2026-02-26 17:47
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
NVIDIA Display Driver contains a vulnerability where an uncontrolled DLL loading path might lead to arbitrary denial of service, escalation of privileges, code execution, and data tampering.
Severity
8.2 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-22 03:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
7 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | GeForce |
Affected:
All driver versions prior to 581.42
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS |
Affected:
All driver versions prior to 581.42
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS |
Affected:
All driver versions prior to 573.76
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS |
Affected:
All driver versions prior to 539.56
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Tesla |
Affected:
All driver versions prior to 581.42
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Tesla |
Affected:
All driver versions prior to 573.76
|
guessed | |
| NVIDIA | Tesla |
Affected:
All driver versions prior to 539.56
|
guessed |
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