VDB-123467 · CVE-2018-6259 · Qualys 371169

NVIDIA GeForce Experience up to 3.14.0 GameStream information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in NVIDIA GeForce Experience up to 3.14.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component GameStream. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-6259. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA GeForce Experience up to 3.14.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component GameStream. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

NVIDIA GeForce Experience all versions prior to 3.14.1 contains a potential vulnerability when GameStream is enabled, an attacker has system access, and certain system features are enabled, where limited information disclosure may be possible.

The bug was discovered 08/30/2018. The weakness was disclosed 08/31/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at nvidia.custhelp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-6259 since 01/24/2018. Attacking locally is a requirement. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 371169 (Nvidia Geforce Experience Multiple Vulnerabilities).

Upgrading to version 3.14.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 2.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 2.9

VulDB Base Score: 3.3
VulDB Temp Score: 3.2
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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: GeForce Experience 3.14.1

Timelineinfo

01/24/2018 🔍
08/30/2018 +217 days 🔍
08/31/2018 +0 days 🔍
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09/01/2018 +1 days 🔍
03/19/2020 +565 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: nvidia.com

Advisory: nvidia.custhelp.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-6259 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-6259
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-123467
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/01/2018 08:22
Updated: 03/19/2020 20:44
Changes: 09/01/2018 08:22 (61), 03/19/2020 20:44 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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