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CVE-2026-47491

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-30 · updated 2026-10-01
• Weakness: CWE-404

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer where an unprivileged user can cause improper release of memory resources, leaving a mapping accessible after the underlying memory is reused. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GeForce: All driver versions prior to 615.71.09, All driver versions prior to 610.57.04, All driver versions prior to 595.91.07, All driver versions prior to 580.178.04
• NVIDIA Guest driver: from 595.71.05(All versions prior through and including vGPU 20.1); from 580.159.03(All versions prior through and including vGPU 19.5)
• NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS: All driver versions prior to 615.71.09, All driver versions prior to 610.57.04, All driver versions prior to 595.91.07, All driver versions prior to 580.178.04
• NVIDIA Tesla: All driver versions prior to 615.71.09, All driver versions prior to 610.57.04, All driver versions prior to 595.91.07, All driver versions prior to 580.178.04

References

• https://github.com/NVIDIA/product-security/tree/main/2026/5861
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47491
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47491

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