Local privilege escalation via undisclosed access control
Published Dec 30, 2022 · Updated Apr 11, 2025
Improper access control in NVIDIA vGPU Software guest drivers through 14.2, 13.4, and 11.9 allows local users to gain privileges. NVIDIA has not published the affected access-control locus or the operation that mishandles authorization. An unprivileged Windows account is sufficient; exploitation grants elevated access, command execution, or reads of sensitive information.
Summary
What happened
Improper access control in NVIDIA vGPU Software guest drivers through 14.2, 13.4, and 11.9 allows local users to gain privileges. NVIDIA has not published the affected access-control locus or the operation that mishandles authorization. An unprivileged Windows account is sufficient; exploitation grants elevated access, command execution, or reads of sensitive information.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-34672
- Published
- Dec 30, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 11, 2025
- Vendor
- NVIDIA
- Product
- NVIDIA vGPU Software Graphics Driver
- Classifications
- CWE-284, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 30, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 11, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=All versions prior to and including 14.2, 13.4, and 11.9, and all versions prior to the November 2022 release
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