NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Installer os command injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Installer. Executing a manipulation can lead to os command injection. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-33230. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit (affected version not known). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component Installer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Linux contains a vulnerability in the .run installer, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string to the installation path. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges, code execution, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-33230. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 01/27/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1202.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 294990 (NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit < 13.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities), 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 (294990). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• NVIDIA

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• CUDA Toolkit

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.nvidia.com/

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