NVIDIA Display Driver Lock Leak Enables DoS
CVE-2026-24182 Published on May 26, 2026
NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could leak held driver locks. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-24182 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 have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Improper Locking
The software does not properly acquire or release a lock on a resource, leading to unexpected resource state changes and behaviors.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-24182
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA GeForce:- Version All driver versions prior to 595.71.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 580.159.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.309.01 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 595.71.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 580.159.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.309.01 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 595.71.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 580.159.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.309.01 is affected.
- Version 595.58.03(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0) is affected.
- Version 580.126.09(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4) is affected.
- Version 535.288.01(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13) is affected.
- Version 595.58.03(All versions up to and including the March 2026 release) is affected.
- Version 595.58.02(All versions up to and including the March 2026 release) is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.36 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 582.53. Only GPUs based on the NVIDIA Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPU architectures are affected. is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.36 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 582.53 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 539.72 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.36 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 582.53 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 539.72 is affected.
- Version 595.97(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0) is affected.
- Version 582.16(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4) is affected.
- Version 539.64(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13) is affected.
Exploit Probability
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