CVE-2015-7865

high
Published 2015-11-24 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.7

Description

nvSCPAPISvr.exe in the Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.92, R352 before 354.35, and R358 before 358.87 on Windows does not properly restrict access to the stereosvrpipe named pipe, which allows local users to gain privileges via a commandline in a number 2 command, which is stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE explorer Run registry key, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4784.

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-38792 local windows verified
Google Security Research ยท 2015-11-23

Nvidia Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service 7.17.13.5382 - Arbitrary Run Key Creation

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver{"startIncluding":"340","endExcluding":"341.92"}341.92
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver{"startIncluding":"352","endExcluding":"354.35"}354.35
nvidia nvidiagpu_driver{"startIncluding":"358","endExcluding":"358.87"}358.87

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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