CVE-2026-47596

HIGHCVSS 7.0

Description

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.

Timeline

Published:September 30th, 2026 4:17 PM

Last modified:September 30th, 2026 6:18 PM

CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 7.0 (HIGH)

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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-281

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

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

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute