Local Privilege Escalation via D-Bus Config in NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver
CVE-2022-31608 Published on November 19, 2022
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in an optional D-Bus configuration file, where a local user with basic capabilities can impact protected D-Bus endpoints, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-31608 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
Improper Preservation of Permissions
The software does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended.
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA GeForce, Workstation, Compute Version All versions prior to the August 2022 release is affected by CVE-2022-31608Exploit Probability
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