Privilege escalation in SHIELD TV - CVE-2017-6296

 

Privilege escalation in SHIELD TV - CVE-2017-6296

Published: February 21, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10675
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6296
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
SHIELD TV

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists due to a TOCTOU issue in the DRM application in NVIDIA TrustZone Software. A local attacker can cause service to crash or gain elevated privileges.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-6296

Update to version 6.3.

Sources