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Vulnerability · Published Jan 20, 2026 · Assigned by nvidia

CVE-2025-33229

High 7.3

In plain English

A high-severity uncontrolled search path in CUDA Toolkit from NVIDIA. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 9% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.3High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio for Windows contains a vulnerability in Nsight Monitor where an attacker can execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition Monitor application. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to escalation of privileges, code execution, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12nvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-33229
Debian:13nvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-33229
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33229
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33229
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33229
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33229
Ubuntu:26.10nvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33229

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit All versions prior to CUDA Toolkit 13.1

Weakness: CWE-427 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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