Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-23346

Memory Safety in Nvidia Cuda Toolkit ≤ 13.0.0

Published
24 September 2025
Modified
06 October 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 3.3
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0015 4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23346 is a low-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Nvidia Cuda Toolkit. Its CVSS base score is 3.3 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-6 (Least Privilege) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit contains a vulnerability in cuobjdump, where an unprivileged user can cause a NULL pointer dereference. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a limited denial of service.

CWE(s)

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Affected Assets

nvidia
cuda toolkit
≤ 13.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • AC-6 Least Privilege
  • SI-10 Information Input Validation
  • SI-16 Memory Protection
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)

Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Restricting execution of cuobjdump to only those users who require it directly blocks unprivileged users from triggering the NULL dereference.

prevent

Input validation on arguments or object files passed to cuobjdump can reject malformed data that leads to the NULL pointer dereference.

prevent

Memory protection mechanisms can detect or block invalid memory accesses such as the NULL dereference before a crash occurs.

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 (static analysis, code review, safe coding standards) directly prevent NULL dereference bugs 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.

detects

Security testing can detect NULL dereference defects before release.

prevents

Secure SDLC mandates defensive coding practices that can prevent NULL dereferences.

prevents

Application security requirements can specify input validation and pointer-safety rules.

prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage defensive design that avoids unsafe pointer use.

prevents

Secure coding standards directly require NULL-pointer checks and safe dereference patterns.

References