CVE-2025-33231 (GCVE-0-2025-33231)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-20 17:55 – Updated: 2026-02-26 14:44
VLAI
Summary
NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Windows contains a vulnerability in the application’s DLL loading mechanism where an attacker could cause an uncontrolled search path element by exploiting insecure DLL search paths. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service and information disclosure.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-427 - Uncontrolled Search Path Element
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | CUDA Toolkit |
Affected:
All versions prior to CUDA Toolkit 13.1
|
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
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