CVE-2026-47496

high

Assigned by CNA: nvidia

Published 2026-09-30 · Modified 2026-09-30

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CVSS v3

7.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.3

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin) where a guest VM user may cause an out-of-bounds write by sending a specially crafted RPC call to the host. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges, data tampering, and denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

72%

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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References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

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