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CVE-2012-0946

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0946 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in NVIDIA UNIX drivers prior to version 295.40. This flaw allows local attackers with GPU device-node read/write privileges to access arbitrary memory locations, potentially leading to information disclosure, data modification, and denial of service. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking significant community discussion, public exploit code exists, indicating a potential risk for affected systems.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 295.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:unix_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20201 · Aug 2, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0073 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 3,050 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

nvidia.custhelp.com / app/answers/detail/a_id/3109
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/48650
secunia.com / advisories/48793
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/74822
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-1420-1