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CVE-2025-33221: NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause an incorrect permission

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 24/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.17% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause an incorrect permission assignment for a critical resource. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to data tampering and denial of service.

MediumCVSS 6.0 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
May 26, 2026
Updated
Jul 24, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 6th percentile

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Action score

24

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
24 / 40 · 6.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
6.0
CNA · nvidia
4.4
1.6 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
nvidiagpu display driver

Affected versions

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

  • nvidia gpu display driver535 and later · before 535.309.01
  • nvidia gpu display driver535 and later · before 539.72
  • nvidia gpu display driver580 and later · before 580.159.03
  • nvidia gpu display driver580 and later · before 582.53
  • nvidia gpu display driver595 and later · before 595.36
  • nvidia gpu display driver595 and later · before 595.71.05

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 GeForce

    • All driver versions prior to 595.71.05, All driver versions prior to 580.159.03, All driver versions prior to 535.309.01, All driver versions prior to 596.36, All driver versions prior to 582.53 Only GPUs based on the NVIDIA Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPU architectures are affected.affected

  • NVIDIA Guest driver

    • 595.58.03(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0), 580.126.09(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4), 535.288.01(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13), 595.58.03(All versions up to and including the March 2026 release), 595.97(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0), 582.16(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4), 539.64(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13)affected

  • NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS

    • All driver versions prior to 595.71.05, All driver versions prior to 580.159.03, All driver versions prior to 535.309.01, All driver versions prior to 596.36, All driver versions prior to 582.53, All driver versions prior to 539.72affected

  • NVIDIA Tesla

    • All driver versions prior to 595.71.05, All driver versions prior to 580.159.03, All driver versions prior to 535.309.01, All driver versions prior to 596.36, All driver versions prior to 582.53, All driver versions prior to 539.72affected

Same product

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  • CVE-2022-34671NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the user-mode layer, where an unprivileged user can cause an out-of-bounds
    35Monitor
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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-0092Jun 13, 2024 · NVIDIA GPU Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where an improper check or improper handling of exception conditions might
    22Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-0107Aug 8, 2024 · NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the user mode layer, where an unprivileged regular user can cause an out-o
    31Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-24182May 26, 2026 · NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could leak held driver locks.
    26Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-241950 days apartNVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in UVM, where a user could cause improper input validation.
    22Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • Administrator privileges are required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

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