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CVE-2016-4960

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4960 describes an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA NVStreamKMS.sys service component affecting NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products. This flaw stems from improper validation of user-supplied data through its API entry points. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.3 (HIGH), successful exploitation requires local access and user interaction, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:geforce_experience:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.3HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 759 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

nvidia.custhelp.com / app/answers/detail/a_id/4213
PatchVendor Advisory
support.lenovo.com / us/en/product_security/ps500070
securityfocus.com / bid/93251