CVE-2025-33228 HIGH

CVE-2025-33228

Vendor Nvidia
Product CUDA Toolkit
Weakness CWE-78
Published January 20, 2026
Last update February 26, 2026

CVSS base score

7.3/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string to the process_nsys_rep_cli.py script if the script is invoked manually. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 20, 2026 CVE published
February 26, 2026 Record updated