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Vulnerability · Published Jan 20, 2026 · Assigned by nvidia

CVE-2025-33231

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-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 8% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.7Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 91.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Windows contains a vulnerability in the application’s DLL loading mechanism where an attacker could cause an uncontrolled search path element by exploiting insecure DLL search paths. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service and information disclosure.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12nvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-33231
Debian:13nvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-33231
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33231
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33231
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33231
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33231
Ubuntu:26.10nvidia-cuda-toolkitno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33231

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:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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