Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-42291

High

Published: 07 February 2023

Published
07 February 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.4th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-42291 is a high-severity Insecure Operation on Windows Junction / Mount Point (CWE-1386) vulnerability in Nvidia Geforce Experience. Its CVSS base score is 8.2 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in the installer, where a user installing the NVIDIA GeForce Experience software may inadvertently delete data from a linked location, which may lead to data tampering. An attacker does not have explicit control over…

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the exploitation of this vulnerability, which requires the user to explicitly launch the installer from the compromised directory.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

nvidia
geforce experience
≤ 3.27.0.112

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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