NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit on Windows out-of-bounds

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit on Windows and classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2024-53873. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit on Windows (the affected version unknown). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. The impact remains unknown. The summary by CVE is:

NVIDIA CUDA toolkit for Windows contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service.

The advisory is shared at nvidia.custhelp.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-53873 since 11/23/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216913 (NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.8.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (February_2025)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216913). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 2.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 2.6

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VulDB Temp Score: 1.9
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Class: Out-of-bounds
CWE: CWE-125 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Nessus ID: 216913
Nessus Name: NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.8.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities (February_2025)

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

11/23/2024 🔍
02/25/2025 +94 days 🔍
02/25/2025 +0 days 🔍
09/19/2025 +206 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: nvidia.com

Advisory: nvidia.custhelp.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-53873 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-53873
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-296845

Entryinfo

Created: 02/25/2025 22:02
Updated: 09/19/2025 05:03
Changes: 02/25/2025 22:02 (57), 02/28/2025 02:34 (2), 09/19/2025 05:03 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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