CVE-2025-23308 Memory corruption in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
An attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution by tricking a user into running nvdisasm on a malicious ELF file, causing a heap-based buffer overflow.
- 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-2025-23308?
CVE-2025-23308 is a low-severity memory corruption vulnerability in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, published on 24 Sep 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 nvdisasm where an attacker may cause a heap-based buffer overflow by getting the user to run nvdisasm on a malicious ELF file. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to arbitrary code execution at the privilege level of the user running nvdisasm.
Weakness: CWE-122
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-23308?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Cuda Toolkit.
How do I fix CVE-2025-23308?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-23308 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-2025-23308 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-23308 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-23308, GHSA-cjjp-vvw5-q784, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-23308.