# CVE-2024-53872: Denial of service in CUDA Toolkit

> An attacker can cause a partial denial of service in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit by providing a malformed ELF file to the cuobjdump binary.

- **Severity:** Low 3.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 25 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53872, GHSA-c499-vvj4-hwww, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53872

## What is CVE-2024-53872?

CVE-2024-53872 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, published on 25 Feb 2025. 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 CUDA toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause an out-of-bounds read by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53872?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Nvidia Cuda Toolkit.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-53872?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-53872 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-53872 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53872 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

- [CVE-2022-21821](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-21821/): Integer overflow in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2020-5991](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5991/): Memory corruption in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2025-33228](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-33228/): Command injection in CUDA Toolkit (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2025-33229](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-33229/): Code injection in CUDA Toolkit (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2025-33230](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-33230/): Command injection in CUDA Toolkit (high 7.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-53872 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-53872 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, published on 25 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53872 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53872/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-53872/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53872
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53872
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-53872

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