Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-5958 - Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Nvidia Geforce Experience, Quadro Firmware and Tesla Firmware
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
MEDIUM 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 plant a malicious DLL file, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, or information disclosure.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 7 | |
| OS | 1 | |
| Hardware | 2 | |
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths This attack loads a malicious resource into a program's standard path used to bootstrap and/or provide contextual information for a program like a path variable or classpath. J2EE applications and other component based applications that are built from multiple binaries can have very long list of dependencies to execute. If one of these libraries and/or references is controllable by the attacker then application controls can be circumvented by the attacker. A standard UNIX path looks similar to this If the attacker modifies the path variable to point to a locale that includes malicious resources then the user unwittingly can execute commands on the attackers' behalf: This is a form of usurping control of the program and the attack can be done on the classpath, database resources, or any other resources built from compound parts. At runtime detection and blocking of this attack is nearly impossible, because the configuration allows execution.
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 | |