Privilege escalation in NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience) - CVE‑2018‑6265
Published: November 21, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16000
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‑2018‑6265
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: nVidia
Affected software:
NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience)
NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience)
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to an error during application installation on Windows 7 in elevated privilege mode. A local attacker can initiate a browser session and gain elevated privileges to execute arbitrary code.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
How to mitigate CVE‑2018‑6265
Update to version 3.16.