CVE-2026-24241
Published: 24 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-24241 is a medium-severity Improper Authentication (CWE-287) vulnerability in Nvidia Delegated License Service. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210); ranked at the 26.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Detects unauthorized successful logons resulting from improper authentication implementations.
Documented procedures ensure personnel are trained on authentication mechanisms, tangibly lowering the risk of improper authentication being exploited.
Security awareness training instructs users on secure authentication practices and avoiding credential compromise.
Training on authentication mechanisms and best practices decreases the occurrence of improper authentication.
Non-repudiation requires strong authentication mechanisms to irrefutably attribute performed actions to specific individuals or processes.
Session content review can reveal authentication bypasses or failures in session establishment.
Review of authentication-related audit records can detect improper authentication mechanisms or bypasses.
Assessments check authentication mechanisms for correct implementation and effectiveness, reducing successful authentication bypass attempts.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Improper authentication (CWE-287) in a network-exposed licensing service directly enables remote exploitation for unauthorized data access, mapping to Exploitation of Remote Services.
NVD Description
NVIDIA Delegated Licensing Service for all appliance platforms contains a vulnerability where an attacker could exploit an improper authentication issue. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to information disclosure.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-24241 affects the NVIDIA Delegated Licensing Service across all appliance platforms. The vulnerability stems from an improper authentication issue, mapped to CWE-287, which could enable information disclosure upon successful exploitation. Published on 2026-02-24, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), indicating medium severity with low confidentiality impact and no effects on integrity or availability.
An adjacent network attacker (AV:A) with no required privileges (PR:N) can exploit this vulnerability through low-complexity means (AC:L) without user interaction (UI:N). Exploitation remains scoped to unchanged impact (S:U), potentially resulting in limited information disclosure.
Mitigation guidance is available in official advisories, including NVIDIA's security bulletin at https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5789, the NVD detail page at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-24241, and the CVE record at https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24241.
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