CVE-2025-33230 Command injection in CUDA Toolkit
Attackers can execute arbitrary OS commands and escalate privileges via malicious installation paths in the NVIDIA Nsight Systems Linux installer.
- 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-2025-33230?
CVE-2025-33230 is a high-severity command 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 Systems for Linux contains a vulnerability in the .run installer, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string to the installation path. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges, code execution, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-33230?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Cuda Toolkit.
How do I fix CVE-2025-33230?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-33230 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2025-33230 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-33230 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-33230, GHSA-vcvf-v255-3h2m, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33230.