Information disclosure in NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience) - CVE-2018-6262
Published: October 2, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU31197
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6262
CWE-ID: CWE-200
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 authenticated user to gain access to sensitive information.
NVIDIA GeForce Experience prior to 3.15 contains a vulnerability when GameStream is enabled where limited sensitive user information may be available to users with system access, which may lead to information disclosure.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-6262
Install update from vendor's website.