CVE-2013-0109

high

Published 2013-04-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.2

Description

The NVIDIA driver before 307.78, and Release 310 before 311.00, in the NVIDIA Display Driver service on Windows does not properly handle exceptions, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory overwrite) via a crafted application.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-30393 local windows_x86-64 verified

Metasploit · 2013-12-17

Nvidia (nvsvc) Display Driver Service - Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/local/nvidia_nvsvc rank 200

Nvidia (nvsvc) Display Driver Service Local Privilege Escalation

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
nvidia	display_driver	`{"endIncluding":"307.00"}`
nvidia	display_driver	`310.00`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.