CVE-2022-42260 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting the NVIDIA vGPU Display Driver for Linux guests, impacting products from Citrix, Red Hat, and VMware. An unauthorized user within a guest virtual machine can manipulate D-Bus configuration, potentially leading to code execution, denial of service, privilege escalation, information disclosure, or data tampering. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can result in high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 11.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:virtual_gpu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 12.0, < 13.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:virtual_gpu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 14.0, < 14.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:virtual_gpu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 525.60.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:cloud_gaming:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 470, < 470.161.03CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_display_driver:*:*:*:*:*:linux:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/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.