CVE-2015-1170: NVIDIA GPU Driver r304

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GPU Driver r304: up to and including 309.07
• NVIDIA GPU Driver r340: up to and including 341.43
• NVIDIA GPU Driver r343: up to and including 345.19
• NVIDIA GPU Driver r346: up to and including 347.51

Published 2015-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.