NVIDIA GPU Display Driver: Unprivileged Local User Pointer Deref
CVE-2026-47550 Published on September 30, 2026
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer where an unprivileged local user can supply an untrusted pointer that the driver dereferences without validation. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-47550 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
What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?
The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.
CVE-2026-47550 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-47550
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA GeForce:- Version All driver versions prior to 610.60 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 610.88 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 616.56 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 616.92 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 582.78 Only GPUs based on the NVIDIA Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPU architectures are affected. is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 582.78 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.86 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.86 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.86 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 616.92 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 610.88 is affected.
- Version 596.38(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.1) is affected.
- Version 582.51(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.5) is affected.