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FKIE_CVE-2025-33230

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-20 18:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:13

Severity

7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Linux contains a vulnerability in the .run installer, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string to the installation path. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges, code execution, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

References

URL	Tags
psirt@nvidia.com	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33230	US Government Resource, VDB Entry
psirt@nvidia.com	https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5755	Patch, Vendor Advisory
psirt@nvidia.com	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33230	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	nvidia	cuda_toolkit	*
	linux	linux_kernel	-

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CVE-2025-33230 (GCVE-0-2025-33230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-20 17:55 – Updated: 2026-02-26 14:44

Summary

Severity

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-01-21 04:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Assigner

nvidia CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 327 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33230
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33230
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
NVIDIA	CUDA Toolkit	Affected: All versions prior to CUDA Toolkit 13.1

Show details on NVD website

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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