CVE-2025-33228

Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string to the process_nsys_rep_cli.py script if the script is invoked manually. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

Affected products

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit: before 13.1.0 — fixed in 13.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33228
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5755
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33228

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