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CVE-2018-6253
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the DirectX and OpenGL Usermode drivers where a specially crafted pixel shader can…
Medium5.5EPSS 0.40%
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- nvidia
Description
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the DirectX and OpenGL Usermode drivers where a specially crafted pixel shader can cause infinite recursion leading to denial of service.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
- CWE-835 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-835 and its CVEs
Affected products
Nvidia Corporation · GPU Display Driver
- affected All
References (3)
- http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4649 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-3662-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0522 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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