NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Windows contains a vulnerability in the application’s DLL loading mechanism where an attacker could cause an uncontrolled search path element by exploiting insecure DLL search paths. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service and information disclosure.

NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Windows contains a vulnerability in the application’s DLL loading mechanism where an attacker could cause an uncontrolled search path element by exploiting insecure DLL search paths. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service and information disclosure.

Affected: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: nvidia-cuda-toolkit, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: nvidia-cuda-toolkit, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: nvidia-cuda-toolkit, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: nvidia-cuda-toolkit, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: nvidia-cuda-toolkit, Ubuntu:25.10: nvidia-cuda-toolkit, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: nvidia-cuda-toolkit

NVIDIA Nsight Systems for Windows contains a vulnerability in the application’s DLL loading mechanism where an attacker could cause an uncontrolled search path element by exploiting insecure DLL search paths. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service and information disclosure.