Vulnerability · Published Sep 30, 2026 · Assigned by nvidia
CVE-2026-47579
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity use-after-free in GeForce from NVIDIA. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 2% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 97.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
The NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode driver through which a user might trigger a use-after-free condition. Successful exploitation of this issue could lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | GeForce | All driver versions prior to 610.60 |
| NVIDIA | RTX, Quadro, NVS | All driver versions prior to 610.88 |
| NVIDIA | GeForce | All driver versions prior to 616.56 |
| NVIDIA | RTX, Quadro, NVS | All driver versions prior to 616.92 |
| NVIDIA | GeForce | All driver versions prior to 582.78 Only GPUs based on the NVIDIA Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPU architectures are affected. |
| NVIDIA | RTX, Quadro, NVS | All driver versions prior to 582.78 |
| NVIDIA | Tesla | All driver versions prior to 596.86 |
| NVIDIA | Tesla | All driver versions prior to 596.86 |
| NVIDIA | Tesla | All driver versions prior to 616.92 |
| NVIDIA | Tesla | All driver versions prior to 610.88 |
| NVIDIA | Guest driver | 596.36(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.1) |
| NVIDIA | Guest driver | 582.53(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.5) |
Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H