CVE-2018-6265 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in NVIDIA GeForce Experience versions prior to 3.16, specifically affecting installations on Windows 7. A local user, by initiating a browser session, could elevate their privileges within the browser. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant impact (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) with low attack complexity and requiring low privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:geforce_experience:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.