CVE-2020-5957 — Improper Privilege Management in Nvidia Geforce Experience

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 67.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Nvidia Geforce ExperienceNvidia Quadro FirmwareNvidia Tesla Firmware+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 5
Latest updateMay 24

Description

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel component in which an attacker with local system access can corrupt a system file, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDnvidia/tesla_firmware440 — 440.33.01
▶NVDnvidia/quadro_firmware390 — 392.59+3
▶NVDnvidia/geforce_experience440 — 442.50

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-r259-m89p-gjgg: NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel component in which an attacker with local system↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-5957: NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel component in which an attacker with local system↗2020-03-05
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