NVIDIA Hopper HGX 8-GPU up to HGX-22.10-1-rc67 (1.5.0) GPU vBIOS exposed ioctl with insufficient access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in NVIDIA Hopper HGX 8-GPU. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component GPU vBIOS. The manipulation leads to exposed ioctl with insufficient access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-0141. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA Hopper HGX 8-GPU and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component GPU vBIOS. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a exposed ioctl with insufficient access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-782. The product implements an IOCTL with functionality that should be restricted, but it does not properly enforce access control for the IOCTL. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

NVIDIA Hopper HGX for 8-GPU contains a vulnerability in the GPU vBIOS that may allow a malicious actor with tenant level GPU access to write to an unsupported registry causing a bad state. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service.

It is possible to read the advisory at nvidia.custhelp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-0141 since 12/02/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

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

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Class: Exposed ioctl with insufficient access control
CWE: CWE-782
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Remote: Yes

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12/02/2023 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: nvidia.com

Advisory: nvidia.custhelp.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-0141 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-0141
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-298607

Entryinfo

Created: 03/05/2025 07:17
Changes: 03/05/2025 07:17 (61)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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