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CVE-2017-6278

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6278 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the NVIDIA Tegra kernel's CORE DVFS Thermal driver, affecting various NVIDIA Jetson and Tegra K1 devices. This flaw allows a local attacker to potentially cause a denial of service or escalate privileges due to improper memory access. Rated 7.8 HIGH on CVSS, it requires local access and low privileges, but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 24.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:jetson_tx1_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 28.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:jetson_tx1_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 21.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:jetson_tk1_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 21.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:tegra_k1_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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/4635
Vendor Advisory
nvidia.custhelp.com / app/answers/detail/a_id/4787