CVE-2026-24173

High

Published: 07 April 2026

Published

07 April 2026

Modified

16 April 2026

KEV Added

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CVSS Score 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0005 16.0th percentile

Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-24173 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Nvidia Triton Inference Server. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 16.0th 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 SC-5 (Denial-of-service Protection) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004). What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Flaw remediation directly mitigates this CVE by applying NVIDIA patches to fix the malformed request handling that causes server crashes.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Information input validation ensures malformed requests to the Triton Inference Server are rejected before processing, preventing exploitation-induced crashes.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection good match

prevent

Denial-of-service protection limits the impact of malformed requests that could crash the server and disrupt availability.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation Impact

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users.

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Why these techniques?

Malformed request triggers remote unauthenticated crash in public-facing inference server, directly enabling T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation for endpoint DoS.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause a server crash by sending a malformed request to the server. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2026-24173 is a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Triton Inference Server that enables an attacker to cause a server crash by sending a malformed request. A successful exploit results in denial of service. Published on 2026-04-07, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) and is linked to CWE-190.

The vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network by any unauthenticated attacker with low complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation leads to high-impact availability disruption through server crashes, with no effects on confidentiality or integrity.

Advisories providing mitigation guidance, including patches, are available from the National Vulnerability Database at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24173, NVIDIA at https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5816, and CVE.org at https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24173.