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CVE-2022-42260 — NVIDIA vGPU Display Driver for Linux guest contains a vulnerability in a D-Bus c

NVIDIA vGPU Display Driver for Linux guest contains a vulnerability in a D-Bus configuration file, where an unauthorized user in the guest VM can impact protected D-Bus endpoints, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosur

CVSS
7.8 HIGH
EPSS
0.21% (top 57.30%)
CWE
CWE-281
Published
2022-12-30T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-04-11T15:41:05.566Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

NVIDIA vGPU Display Driver for Linux guest contains a vulnerability in a D-Bus configuration file, where an unauthorized user in the guest VM can impact protected D-Bus endpoints, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
NVIDIAvGPU software (guest driver)Linux, NVIDIA Cloud Gaming (guest driver) — All versions prior to and including 14.2, 13.4, and 11.9, and all versions prior to the November 2022 release

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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