NVIDIA GeForce Experience 3.x before GFE 3.1.0.52 contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA Web Helper.exe where a local web API endpoint, /VisualO

Affected versions

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

• nvidia geforce experience3.0 and later · before 3.1.0.52

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

  • Allaffected

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
  35Monitor
• 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
  33Monitor
• CVE-2021-23175NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in user authorization, where GameStream does not correctly apply individual user access c
  32Monitor
• CVE-2022-42292 NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in the NVContainer component, where a user without administrator privileges can create a
  31Monitor
• 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
  31Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

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

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);2res.sendFile(file);

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {3  return res.sendStatus(400);4}5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

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