NVIDIA GeForce Experience/Windows GPU Display Driver Local Service Provider untrusted search path

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in NVIDIA GeForce Experience and Windows GPU Display Driver. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Local Service Provider. Such manipulation leads to untrusted search path. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-5695. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in NVIDIA GeForce Experience and Windows GPU Display Driver (Hardware Driver Software) (the affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Local Service Provider. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 (prior to 3.20.1) and Windows GPU Display Driver (all versions) contains a vulnerability in the local service provider component in which an attacker with local system and privileged access can incorrectly load Windows system DLLs without validating the path or signature (also known as a binary planting or DLL preloading attack), which may lead to denial of service or information disclosure through code execution.

The weakness was disclosed 11/12/2019 (Website). The advisory is available at nvidia.custhelp.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-5695 since 01/07/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. A simple authentication is necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1574 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.8

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

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

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

01/07/2019 🔍
11/12/2019 +309 days 🔍
11/13/2019 +1 days 🔍
05/04/2026 +2364 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: nvidia.com

Advisory: nvidia.custhelp.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2019-5695 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-5695
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-145442
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Entryinfo

Created: 11/13/2019 12:37
Updated: 05/04/2026 09:26
Changes: 11/13/2019 12:37 (38), 11/13/2019 12:42 (18), 05/04/2026 09:23 (1), 05/04/2026 09:26 (21)
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Committer: lywand
Cache ID: 216::103

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