#VU16000 Privilege escalation in NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience) - CVE‑2018‑6265

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#VU16000 Privilege escalation in NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience) - CVE‑2018‑6265

Published: November 21, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16000
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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
Vulnerable software:
NVIDIA App (formerly GeForce Experience)
Software vendor:
nVidia

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.


Remediation

Update to version 3.16.

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