Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-0185

Nvidia Virtual Gpu ≤ 11.12

Published
01 April 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.7
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0022 12th percentile
Risk Priority 44 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2023-0185 is a medium-severity Unsigned to Signed Conversion Error (CWE-196) vulnerability in Nvidia Virtual Gpu. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 12th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer, where sign conversion issuescasting an unsigned primitive to signed may lead to denial of service or information disclosure.

CWE(s)
CWE-196CWE-681

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
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T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
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T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access Credential Access
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to collect credentials.
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Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

nvidia
virtual gpu
≤ 11.12 · 13.0 — 13.7 · 15.0 — 15.2

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices (reviews, static analysis, safe integer handling) directly prevent unsigned-to-signed conversion errors during development.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.8.29 Security testing in development and acceptance mostly match
finds

Security testing can detect integer conversion errors through static analysis and fuzzing.

A.8.25 Secure development life cycle partial match
prevents

Secure development lifecycle mandates practices that can catch or prevent unsafe type conversions.

A.8.26 Application security requirements partial match
prevents

Application security requirements can specify safe handling of numeric types and bounds checking.

A.8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles partial match
prevents

Secure architecture principles include choosing appropriate data types and avoiding implicit conversions.

A.8.28 Secure coding partial match
prevents

Secure coding standards directly address avoiding unsafe casts from unsigned to signed integers.

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