Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2025-33210 is a critical-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability in Nvidia Isaac Lab. Its CVSS base score is 9.0 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 49th 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 SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2025-33210 is a deserialization vulnerability (CWE-502) affecting NVIDIA Isaac Lab. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution. The issue has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.0, with the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, low privileges required, user interaction needed, changed scope, and high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It was published on 2025-12-16.
An attacker with low privileges can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity, though it requires user interaction. Upon successful exploitation, the attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution, resulting in high-impact compromise of the affected system.
Advisories providing further details and potential mitigations are available from the NVIDIA security bulletin at https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5733, the NVD entry at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33210, and the CVE record at https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33210.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-203814
Vulnerability Data
NVIDIA Isaac Lab contains a deserialization vulnerability. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can uncover deserialization flaws before deployment.
Input validation directly stops deserialization of untrusted data by ensuring inputs are valid before processing.
Engineering principles such as safe deserialization and input sanitization structurally prevent the weakness from being introduced.
Integrity verification tools can detect malformed or tampered serialized data after the fact.
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-02 addresses only post-deployment updates/patching and cannot prevent introduction of unsafe deserialization code, yet it can remediate some instances when the flaw exists in outdated libraries or components.
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.
Security testing includes validation of deserialization routines and the use of untrusted data, reducing the likelihood that unsafe object reconstruction will be deployed.
Requiring vetted libraries, regular updates and SAST before release reduces the likelihood that deserialization logic will accept and act on attacker-controlled serialized objects.
Regular scanning of third-party libraries and timely patching reduce the likelihood that unsafe deserialization vulnerabilities remain active.