CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-1170
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-03-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The NVIDIA Display Driver R304 before 309.08, R340 before 341.44, R343 before 345.20, and R346 before 347.52 does not properly validate local client impersonation levels when performing a "kernel administrator check," which allows local users to gain administrator privileges via unspecified API calls.
Affected configurations
• nvidia gpu driver r304 (<= 309.07)
• nvidia gpu driver r340 (<= 341.43)
• nvidia gpu driver r343 (<= 345.19)
• nvidia gpu driver r346 (<= 347.51)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142781493222653&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143013598825091&w=2 marc.info
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3634 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032013 www.securitytracker.com
- https://support.lenovo.com/product_security/nvidia_windows_privilege support.lenovo.com
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/nvidia_windows_privilege support.lenovo.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142781493222653&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143013598825091&w=2 marc.info
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3634 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032013 www.securitytracker.com
- https://support.lenovo.com/product_security/nvidia_windows_privilege support.lenovo.com
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/nvidia_windows_privilege support.lenovo.com