CVE-2012-4225 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in NVIDIA UNIX graphics drivers prior to versions 295.71 and 304.32. An attacker can exploit this by modifying the VGA window via /dev/nvidia0, allowing them to write to arbitrary physical memory locations and gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its low attack complexity and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 295.71CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:unix_graphic_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 304.32CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:unix_graphic_driver:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.