NVIDIA GeForce Experience up to 3.20.1 GameStream untrusted search path

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in NVIDIA GeForce Experience up to 3.20.1. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component GameStream. Such manipulation as part of Stream leads to untrusted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-5701. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA GeForce Experience up to 3.20.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component GameStream. The manipulation as part of a Stream leads to a untrusted search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-426. The product searches for critical resources using an externally-supplied search path that can point to resources that are not under the product's direct control. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

NVIDIA GeForce Experience, all versions prior to 3.20.1, contains a vulnerability when GameStream is enabled in which an attacker with local system access can load the Intel graphics driver DLLs without validating the path or signature (also known as a binary planting or DLL preloading attack), which may lead to denial of service, information disclosure, or escalation of privileges through code execution.

The weakness was disclosed 11/09/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at nvidia.custhelp.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-5701 since 01/07/2019. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1574.

Upgrading to version 3.20.1.57 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-145283 and VDB-145442 are pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Untrusted search path
CWE: CWE-426
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Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: GeForce Experience 3.20.1.57

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01/07/2019 🔍
11/09/2019 +306 days 🔍
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05/04/2026 +2368 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: nvidia.com

Advisory: nvidia.custhelp.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-5701 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-5701
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-145292
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Entryinfo

Created: 11/09/2019 13:30
Updated: 05/04/2026 09:25
Changes: 11/09/2019 13:30 (40), 11/09/2019 13:35 (17), 05/04/2026 09:22 (2), 05/04/2026 09:25 (21)
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Committer: lywand
Cache ID: 216::103

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