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high 7.3

CVE-2026-47496 json

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin) where a guest VM user may cause an ou…

published 2026-09-30 39 d ago modified 2026-10-01 39 d ago also EUVD-2026-90071

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin) where a guest VM user may cause an out-of-bounds write by sending a specially crafted RPC call to the host. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges, data tampering, and denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • nvidia virtual_gpu_manager 580.159.01, 582.51, 595.71.03, 596.38
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla Debian 12 525.147.05-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-47496

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-47496 updated cvss 7.3

nvidia-driver: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia: nvidia-driver: Privilege escalation via crafted RPC in Virtual GPU Manager

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 libnvidia-ml, libnvidia-cfg, libnvidia-fbc, xorg-x11-nvidia, libnvidia-gpucomp, nvidia-driver-cuda, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 nvidia-driver 615.71.10-1.el10
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
40 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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