CVE-2015-5950 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in NVIDIA display drivers across Windows, Linux, and GRID vGPU/vSGA platforms, allowing local users to write to arbitrary kernel memory via a crafted ioctl call. With a CVSS score of 6.9, it's a high-severity issue requiring local access and medium attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 352.30CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 352.09CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:display_driver:*:*:*:*:*:linux:*:* | ||
304.108CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:display_driver:304.108:*:*:*:*:linux:*:* | ||
304.119CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:display_driver:304.119:*:*:*:*:linux:*:* | ||
304.121CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:display_driver:304.121:*:*:*:*:linux:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.