NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Monitor RCE via local privilege escalation
CVE-2025-33229 Published on January 20, 2026
NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio for Windows contains a vulnerability in Nsight Monitor where an attacker can execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition Monitor application. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to escalation of privileges, code execution, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-33229 can be exploited with local system access, requires user interaction and a 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
What is a DLL preloading Vulnerability?
The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors.
CVE-2025-33229 has been classified to as a DLL preloading vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-33229
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit Version All versions prior to CUDA Toolkit 13.1 is affected by CVE-2025-33229Exploit Probability
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