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CVE-2022-42292

Published: Feb 7, 2023

Modified: Mar 25, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.0

MEDIUM

Description

NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in the NVContainer component, where a user without administrator privileges can create a symbolic link to a file that requires elevated privileges to write to or modify, which may lead to denial of service, escalation of privilege or limited data tampering.

VendorProductVersions

NVIDIA

GeForce Experience

affected
All versions prior to 3.27.0.112

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

High

References

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