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🛡️ CVE-2022-34669 — cloud-gaming

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-73 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the user mode layer, where an unprivileged regular user can access or modify system files or other files that are critical to the application, which may lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, or data tampering.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-34669 is classified as CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path. A caller can influence which file the application opens or writes, extending an operation to files that were never meant to be reachable.

Affected software

CVE-2022-34669 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • cloud-gaming (fixed in 527.27)
  • virtual-gpu (from 14.0 up to 14.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvidia.custhelp.com
nvidia.custhelp.com

Other advisories for this package

cloud-gaming has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-73
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-12-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cloud-gaming — 527.27
virtual-gpu 14.0 14.4

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