CVE-2025-23247 Memory corruption in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

Medium 4.4 Published 27 May 2025 Updated 2 Jun 2025

A buffer length check failure in the cuobjdump binary allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash via a malformed ELF file.

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: None listed

What is CVE-2025-23247?

CVE-2025-23247 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, published on 27 May 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 failure to check the length of a buffer could allow a user to cause the tool to crash or execute arbitrary code by passing in a malformed ELF file. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness: CWE-130

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23247?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Cuda Toolkit.

How do I fix CVE-2025-23247?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-23247 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2025-23247 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23247 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23247, GHSA-mhvp-2g8x-v832, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23247.