FKIE_CVE-2025-33228

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-20 18:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:13
Severity
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string to the process_nsys_rep_cli.py script if the script is invoked manually. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
References
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33228US Government Resource, VDB Entry
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5755Patch, Vendor Advisory
psirt@nvidia.comhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33228Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
nvidia cuda_toolkit *
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