CVE-2015-5053 is a critical vulnerability affecting NVIDIA GPU graphics drivers (R346 before 346.87, R352 before 352.41 for Linux, and R352 before 352.46 for GRID vGPU/vSGA). It stems from improper access restrictions in the host memory mapping path feature, specifically related to the follow_pfn kernel-mode API call. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve privilege escalation, cause a denial of service, or have other unspecified impacts over the network. The attack complexity is low, making it easily exploitable. Despite its critical severity, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
346.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver:346.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
346.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver:346.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
346.35CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver:346.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
346.47CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver:346.47:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
346.59CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver:346.59:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.