CVE-2026-47491: NVIDIA Geforce

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer where an unprivileged user can cause improper release of memory resources, leaving a mapping accessible after the underlying memory is reused. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Geforce
• NVIDIA Guest Driver
• NVIDIA Rtx, Quadro, Nvs
• NVIDIA Tesla

Published 2026-09-30. Last modified 2026-10-01.