Vulnerability · Published May 27, 2025 · Assigned by nvidia
CVE-2025-23247
Medium 4.4
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in NVIDIA 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 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a failure to check the length of a buffer could allow a user to cause the tool to crash or execute arbitrary code by passing in a malformed ELF file. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to arbitrary code execution.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | nvidia-cuda-toolkit | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23247 |
| Debian:13 | nvidia-cuda-toolkit | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23247 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | nvidia-cuda-toolkit | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23247 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | nvidia-cuda-toolkit | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23247 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | nvidia-cuda-toolkit | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23247 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | nvidia-cuda-toolkit | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23247 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | nvidia-cuda-toolkit | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23247 |
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit | All versions up to CUDA Toolkit 12.9 |
Weakness: CWE-130 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N