NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in all versions prior to 3.16 on Windows where a local user may obtain third party integr

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• nvidia geforce experiencebefore 3.16

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (nvidia). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Nvidia Corporation GeForce Experience

  • 3.16affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2017-6250NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA Web Helper.exe, where untrusted script execution may lead to violation of appli
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• CVE-2016-8812For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, NVIDIA GeForce Experience R340 before GFE 2.11.4.125 and R375 before GFE 3.1.0.52 contains
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• CVE-2021-1073NVIDIA GeForce Experience, all versions prior to 3.23, contains a vulnerability in the login flow when a user tries to log in by using a bro
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• CVE-2021-23175NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in user authorization, where GameStream does not correctly apply individual user access c
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• CVE-2022-42292 NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in the NVContainer component, where a user without administrator privileges can create a
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• CVE-2020-5990NVIDIA GeForce Experience, all versions prior to 3.20.5.70, contains a vulnerability in the ShadowPlay component which may lead to local pri
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.