CVE-2015-1170

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

06/03/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver_r304::::::::		309.07 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver_r340::::::::		341.43 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver_r343::::::::		345.19 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver_r346::::::::		347.51 (including)

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CVE-2015-1170

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools