CVE-2018-6261 — Incorrect Permission Assignment in Nvidia Geforce Experience

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.0HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 86.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Nvidia Geforce ExperienceNvidia Corporation Geforce Experience
Timeline
PublishedOct 2
Latest updateMay 13

Description

NVIDIA GeForce Experience prior to 3.15 contains a vulnerability when GameStream is enabled which sets incorrect permissions on a file, which may to code execution, denial of service, or escalation of privileges by users with system access.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2mj7-r5rf-59q9: NVIDIA GeForce Experience prior to 3↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-6261: NVIDIA GeForce Experience prior to 3↗2018-10-02
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