CVE-2024-53878 Denial of service in CUDA Toolkit
An attacker can cause a crash in the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit's cuobjdump binary by providing a malformed ELF file, resulting in a partial denial of service.
- 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-2024-53878?
CVE-2024-53878 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 Linux and Windows contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a user could cause a crash by passing a malformed ELF file to cuobjdump. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to a partial denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-1284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-53878?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Cuda Toolkit.
How do I fix CVE-2024-53878?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-53878 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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Is CVE-2024-53878 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-53878 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53878, GHSA-m95x-5www-9p45, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-53878.