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CVE-2025-23280NVD status: Deferred

GeForce: Use After Free

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CVE-2025-23280 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in GeForce from NVIDIA, with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.0 out of 10. It can be exploited with local access to the system by an attacker with a low-privileged account, without any action from a user. Affected GeForce versions: All driver versions prior to 580.95.05; All driver versions prior to 570.195.03; All driver versions prior to 535.274.02. The record does not name a fixed version, so check the vendor advisory. There is no confirmed exploitation so far. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation within 30 days, which is low compared with other CVEs.

Next patch cycle

High severity with no evidence of exploitation so far.

What to do

  1. Check which version of GeForce you run against the affected versions below, and install the vendor's latest release.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed in
NVIDIAGeForceAll driver versions prior to 580.95.05; All driver versions prior to 570.195.03; All driver versions prior to 535.274.02Not stated
NVIDIANVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVSAll driver versions prior to 580.95.05; All driver versions prior to 570.195.03; All driver versions prior to 535.274.02Not stated
NVIDIATeslaAll driver versions prior to 580.95.05; All driver versions prior to 570.195.03; All driver versions prior to 535.274.02Not stated
NVIDIAGuest driver580.82.07(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.1); 570.172.08(All versions prior to and including vGPU 18.4); 535.261.03(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.11)Not stated

Version data comes from the organisation that assigned the CVE. Confirm against the vendor advisory before deciding you are unaffected.

How the severity score breaks down

Attack vector
LocalThe attacker needs local access or must trick a user into running something.
Attack complexity
HighSuccess depends on conditions outside the attacker's control.
Privileges required
LowA basic user account is enough.
User interaction
NoneNo action by a victim is required.
Scope
UnchangedImpact stays within the vulnerable component.
Confidentiality
HighAll data handled by the component can be read.
Integrity
HighData or code can be modified at will.
Availability
HighThe component can be taken down completely.

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. Scored by CNA (nvidia.com).

Official description

NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause a use-after-free. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

Source: the CVE record as published by its numbering authority, via NVD and CVE.org.

The underlying weakness: Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory belongs to the code that operates on the new pointer.

How developers prevent this class of flaw

  • Choose a language that provides automatic memory management.
  • When freeing pointers, be sure to set them to NULL once they are freed. However, the utilization of multiple or complex data structures may lower the usefulness of this strategy.

More Use After Free vulnerabilities (CWE-416)

Timeline

  1. CVE record published.
  2. CISA published its SSVC assessment (exploitation: none, automatable: no, technical impact: total).
  3. Record last changed materially (score, affected products, status or references).

References

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