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🛡️ CVE-2026-24187 — gpu-display-driver

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause a use-after-free. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering, and code execution.

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-2026-24187 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2026-24187 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gpu-display-driver (from 595 up to 595.71.05)

Timeline and source

Published on 26 May 2026 and last revised on 20 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov
nvidia.custhelp.com
www.cve.org

Other advisories for this package

gpu-display-driver 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-416: Use After Free) in other software:

CVE-2026-24187 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

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-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-26
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gpu-display-driver 595 595.71.05

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