Out-of-bounds read in CUDA Toolkit and nvJPEG - CVE-2025-23272

 

Out-of-bounds read in CUDA Toolkit and nvJPEG - CVE-2025-23272

Published: September 29, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU116154
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-23272
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition. A local attacker can use a specially crafted JPEG file, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack..


Affected software

CUDA Toolkit
nvJPEG

How to mitigate CVE-2025-23272

Install updates from vendor's website.

CUDA Toolkit - update to 12.9 Update 1
nvJPEG - update to 25.03

External References

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