CVE-2026-47596

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer where an unprivileged user can write to read-only memory because the memory's permissions are not preserved. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution and escalation of privileges.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.0 High

Status

Awaiting Analysis - psirt@nvidia.com

Published

2026-09-30

Last modified

2026-09-30

Weaknesses

CWE-281

Affected products

• Geforce (Nvidia)
• Guest Driver (Nvidia)
• Nvs (Nvidia)
• Quadro (Nvidia)
• Rtx (Nvidia)
• Tesla (Nvidia)

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47596
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47596
• https://github.com/NVIDIA/product-security/tree/main/2026/5861