CVE-2025-33231_CVE-2025-33231

6.7 / 10

MEDIUM

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

Description

NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Windows contains a vulnerability in the application’s DLL loading mechanism where an attacker could cause an uncontrolled search path element by exploiting insecure DLL search paths. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service and information disclosure.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-33231

Source nvidia

Published Jan 20, 2026 at 17:55

Affected Product

Vendor NVIDIA

Product CUDA Toolkit

Version All versions prior to CUDA Toolkit 13.1

Affected Versions NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit All versions prior to CUDA Toolkit 13.1

CWE Classification

CWE-427

References

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