CVE-2018-6260

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-11-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

NVIDIA graphics driver contains a vulnerability that may allow access to application data processed on the GPU through a side channel exposed by the GPU performance counters. Local user access is required. This is not a network or remote attack vector.

Affected products

Nvidia Corporation GPU Display Driver: all versions

References

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-26250
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4738
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4772
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3904-1/
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-26250
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4738
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4772
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3904-1/

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