CVE-2015-1170
NVIDIA Display Driver Elevation of Privilege
Description
The NVIDIA Display Driver R304 before 309.08, R340 before 341.44, R343 before 345.20, and R346 before 347.52 does not properly validate local client impersonation levels when performing a "kernel administrator check," which allows local users to gain administrator privileges via unspecified API calls.
INFO
Published Date :
March 6, 2015, 11:59 p.m.
Last Modified :
Dec. 8, 2016, 3:07 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
3.9
Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2015-1170
vulnerability.
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affected, the information is not represented in the table below.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to
CVE-2015-1170.
We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).
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The following list is the news that have been mention
CVE-2015-1170 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2015-1170 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 08, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/nvidia_windows_privilege [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 03, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://support.lenovo.com/product_security/nvidia_windows_privilege [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 12, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143013598825091&w=2 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Apr. 10, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032013 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Apr. 07, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142781493222653&w=2 -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Mar. 09, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver_r304:309.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) *cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver_r340:341.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) *cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver_r343:345.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) *cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:gpu_driver_r346:347.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) Changed Reference Type http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3634 No Types Assigned http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3634 Advisory Added CWE CWE-264 -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Mar. 09, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2015-1170 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2015-1170
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.04 }} 0.00%
score
0.05635
percentile