NVIDIA GeForce/RTX/Quadro/NVS/Tesla uncontrolled search path

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in NVIDIA GeForce, RTX, Quadro, NVS and Tesla. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2025-23309. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA GeForce, RTX, Quadro, NVS and Tesla and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

NVIDIA Display Driver contains a vulnerability where an uncontrolled DLL loading path might lead to arbitrary denial of service, escalation of privileges, code execution, and data tampering.

The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-23309 since 01/14/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1574 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 270687 (NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver (October 2025)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (270687) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-33751). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

VulDB Base Score: 7.0
VulDB Temp Score: 6.7
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CNA Base Score: 8.2
CNA Vector (nvidia): 🔒

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Uncontrolled search path
CWE: CWE-427 / CWE-426
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 270687
Nessus Name: NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver (October 2025)

Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

01/14/2025 CVE reserved
10/11/2025 +269 days Advisory disclosed
10/11/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
10/22/2025 +11 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: nvidia.com

Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-23309 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-23309
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-327965
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/11/2025 09:52
Updated: 10/22/2025 09:07
Changes: 10/11/2025 09:52 (61), 10/18/2025 18:48 (2), 10/22/2025 09:07 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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