Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-5957 - Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Nvidia Geforce Experience, Quadro Firmware and Tesla Firmware
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel component in which an attacker with local system access can corrupt a system file, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 7 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| Hardware | 2 | |
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Restful Privilege Elevation Rest uses standard HTTP (Get, Put, Delete) style permissions methods, but these are not necessarily correlated generally with back end programs. Strict interpretation of HTTP get methods means that these HTTP Get services should not be used to delete information on the server, but there is no access control mechanism to back up this logic. This means that unless the services are properly ACL'd and the application's service implementation are following these guidelines then an HTTP request can easily execute a delete or update on the server side. The attacker identifies a HTTP Get URL such as http://victimsite/updateOrder, which calls out to a program to update orders on a database or other resource. The URL is not idempotent so the request can be submitted multiple times by the attacker, additionally, the attacker may be able to exploit the URL published as a Get method that actually performs updates (instead of merely retrieving data). This may result in malicious or inadvertent altering of data on the server.
Nessus
| NASL family | Windows |
| NASL id | NVIDIA_WIN_2020_02.NASL |
| description | A display driver installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. - A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in NVIDIA Control Panel component. An unauthenticated, local attacker can exploit this, via corrputing a system file, to gain priviledged access to the system. - A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in NVIDIA Control Panel component. An unauthenticated, local attacker can exploit this, via planting a malicious DLL file, this may lead to code execution, denial of service, or information disclosure. |
| last seen | 2020-03-26 |
| modified | 2020-03-20 |
| plugin id | 134761 |
| published | 2020-03-20 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134761 |
| title | NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver (Feb 2020) |
| code | |