FKIE_CVE-2025-33231

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-20 18:16 - Updated: 2026-02-02 16:07
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Windows contains a vulnerability in the application’s DLL loading mechanism where an attacker could cause an uncontrolled search path element by exploiting insecure DLL search paths. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service and information disclosure.
References
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33231US Government Resource, VDB Entry
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5755Patch, Vendor Advisory
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33231Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nvidia cuda_toolkit *
microsoft windows -
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