CVE-2026-47596

high

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.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47596

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47596

https://github.com/NVIDIA/product-security/tree/main/2026/5861

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-90147

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00204