CVE-2022-42292 Path traversal in GeForce Experience
A local attacker can exploit symbolic link handling in NVContainer to escalate privileges, cause denial of service, or tamper with data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-42292?
CVE-2022-42292 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in NVIDIA GeForce Experience, published on 7 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in the NVContainer component, where a user without administrator privileges can create a symbolic link to a file that requires elevated privileges to write to or modify, which may lead to denial of service, escalation of privilege or limited data tampering.
Weakness: CWE-59
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42292?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Geforce Experience.
How do I fix CVE-2022-42292?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-42292 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2022-42292 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42292 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA GeForce Experience
- CVE-2017-6250 Code injection in GeForce Experience
- CVE-2016-8812 Memory corruption in Quadro, NVS, and GeForce (all versions)
- CVE-2021-1073 Information disclosure in NVIDIA GeForce Experience Software
- CVE-2022-42291 Path traversal in GeForce Experience
- CVE-2021-23175 Missing authorization in NVIDIA GeForce Experience Software
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wp35-336h-g4rc.