Local privilege escalation via incorrect permissions
Published Sep 4, 2025 · Updated Sep 4, 2025
Privilege escalation in NVIDIA DOCA 2.9 before 2.9.3 and all 2.10 releases allows local users to gain elevated privileges. The flaw is in the collectx-clxapidev Debian package, but NVIDIA has not disclosed which resource receives incorrect permissions or how the package assigns them. Exploitation requires an existing low-privilege account and user interaction, and successful exploitation grants higher privileges on the affected Linux host.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in NVIDIA DOCA 2.9 before 2.9.3 and all 2.10 releases allows local users to gain elevated privileges. The flaw is in the collectx-clxapidev Debian package, but NVIDIA has not disclosed which resource receives incorrect permissions or how the package assigns them. Exploitation requires an existing low-privilege account and user interaction, and successful exploitation grants higher privileges on the affected Linux host.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-23257
- Published
- Sep 4, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 4, 2025
- Vendor
- DPDK Project
- Product
- NVIDIA DOCA
- Classifications
- CWE-732, T1548
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 4, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 4, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=All 2.10 versions
- Affected versionversion=All 2.9 versions prior to 2.9.3
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