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FKIE_CVE-2025-23348

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-09-24 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:53
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
NVIDIA Megatron-LM for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the pretrain_gpt script, where malicious data created by an attacker may cause a code injection issue. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.
References
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23348Technical Description
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5698Vendor Advisory
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23348Technical Description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nvidia megatron-lm *
nvidia megatron-lm 0.13.0
nvidia megatron-lm 0.13.0
nvidia megatron-lm 0.13.0
nvidia megatron-lm 0.13.0
nvidia megatron-lm 0.13.0
nvidia megatron-lm 0.13.0
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