Man-in-the-middle attack in NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience) - CVE-2018-6258

 

Man-in-the-middle attack in NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience) - CVE-2018-6258

Published: September 3, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU14598
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6258
CWE-ID: CWE-300
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience)

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attack on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an error during GameStream installation. A local attacker can conduct MITM-attack and gain access to important data.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6258

Update to version 3.14.1.

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