CVE-2025-33180

High

Published: 24 February 2026

Published

24 February 2026

Modified

27 February 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0015 35.1th percentile

Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-33180 is a high-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Nvidia Cumulus Linux. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 35.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-6 (Least Privilege) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Directly prevents command injection vulnerabilities like this one by validating all inputs to the NVUE interface.

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

prevent

Enforces least privilege to restrict low-privileged users from accessing the NVUE interface or performing actions that could lead to escalation.

AC-3 Access Enforcement partial match

prevent

Enforces access control policies to block unauthorized command execution by low-privileged users through the NVUE interface.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.

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T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution

Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.

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Why these techniques?

Command injection allows arbitrary Unix shell command execution (T1059.004), enabling privilege escalation (T1068).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

NVIDIA Cumulus Linux and NVOS products contain a vulnerability in the NVUE interface, where a low-privileged user could inject a command. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-33180 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) in the NVUE interface of NVIDIA Cumulus Linux and NVOS products. Published on 2026-02-24, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.0 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The flaw allows a low-privileged user to inject a command, which could lead to escalation of privileges.

An attacker requires adjacent network (AV:A) access and low privileges (PR:L) to exploit this with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction (UI:N). Successful exploitation enables high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H) within the unchanged scope (S:U), primarily manifesting as privilege escalation from the injected command.

Mitigation details are available in the NVIDIA security bulletin at https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5722, along with further analysis on the NVD page at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33180 and CVE record at https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33180.