CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-5852

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

CVE-2016-5852 vulnerability affects NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, related to unquoted service paths in GFE GameStream and NVTray Plugin. Exploiting this vulnerability may allow malicious code to execute at the system/user privilege level.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to system takeover, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update NVIDIA software to the latest version and to monitor and secure service paths in the system.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

For the NVIDIA Quadro, NVS, and GeForce products, GFE GameStream and NVTray Plugin unquoted service path vulnerabilities are examples of the unquoted service path vulnerability in Windows. A successful exploit of a vulnerable service installation can enable malicious code to execute on the system at the system/user privilege level. The CVE-2016-5852 ID is for the NVTray Plugin unquoted service path.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS