CVE-2025-33242 (GCVE-0-2025-33242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-24 20:22 – Updated: 2026-03-24 20:55
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Summary
NVIDIA B300 MCU contains a vulnerability in the CX8 MCU that could allow a malicious actor to modify unsupported registries, causing a bad state. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service and data tampering.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1234 - Hardware Internal or Debug Modes Allow Override of Locks
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NVIDIA HGX and DGX B300 Affected: All versions prior to and including 1.0
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