Privilege escalation via checkpointing race condition
Published Dec 16, 2025 · Updated Dec 16, 2025
Race condition in NVIDIA Resiliency Extension 0.4.1 allows local users to alter or disclose data, interrupt service, or elevate privileges. The checkpointing core permits a race, but NVIDIA has not disclosed the competing operations or attacker-controlled timing that trigger it. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access on a Linux system running the affected checkpointing code, and the resulting compromise can cross data, availability, or privilege boundaries.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in NVIDIA Resiliency Extension 0.4.1 allows local users to alter or disclose data, interrupt service, or elevate privileges. The checkpointing core permits a race, but NVIDIA has not disclosed the competing operations or attacker-controlled timing that trigger it. Exploitation requires low-privileged local access on a Linux system running the affected checkpointing code, and the resulting compromise can cross data, availability, or privilege boundaries.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-33235
- Published
- Dec 16, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 16, 2025
- Vendor
- DPDK Project
- Product
- NVIDIA Resiliency Extension
- Classifications
- CWE-362, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 16, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=Main branch prior to 0.5.0 release and 0.4.1
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