CVE-2025-33229 Code injection in CUDA Toolkit
An attacker can execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges via the NVIDIA Nsight Monitor application in Visual Studio.
- 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-2025-33229?
CVE-2025-33229 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, published on 20 Jan 2026. 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 Nsight Visual Studio for Windows contains a vulnerability in Nsight Monitor where an attacker can execute arbitrary code with the same privileges as the NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition Monitor application. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to escalation of privileges, code execution, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
Weakness: CWE-427
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-33229?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Cuda Toolkit.
How do I fix CVE-2025-33229?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-33229 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.
Is CVE-2025-33229 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-33229 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-33229, GHSA-65x9-9gp9-wcq3, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33229.