Description
NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Windows contains a vulnerability in the application’s DLL loading mechanism where an attacker could cause an uncontrolled search path element by exploiting insecure DLL search paths. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service and information disclosure.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- NVIDIA
- Published
- 1/20/2026
- Last Modified
- 2/2/2026
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
nvidia : cuda_toolkit
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