CVE-2025-33228

Severity
7.3HIGH
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 20

Description

NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string to the process_nsys_rep_cli.py script if the script is invoked manually. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.3 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDnvidia/cuda_toolkit< 13.1.0
CVEListV5nvidia/cuda_toolkitAll versions prior to CUDA Toolkit 13.1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
CVEList
CVE-2025-33228: NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicio2026-01-20
GHSA
GHSA-p5c4-pcw7-pqff: NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicio2026-01-20
OSV
CVE-2025-33228: NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicio2026-01-20

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
nsight-systems: Nsight Systems: Arbitrary code execution via OS command injection2026-01-20
Debian
CVE-2025-33228: nvidia-cuda-toolkit - NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where ...2025

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-33228 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
CVE-2025-33228 (HIGH CVSS 7.3) | NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vu | cvebase.io