CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-0093

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Jun 13, 2024 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

NVIDIA GPU software for Linux contains a vulnerability where it can expose sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to information disclosure.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Virtual_gpu Nvidia * 13.11 (excluding)
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 14.0 (including) 16.6 (excluding)
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 17.0 (including) 17.2 (excluding)
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-304 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 Ubuntu mantic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 Ubuntu mantic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Ubuntu mantic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-440-server Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-440-server Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 Ubuntu mantic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 Ubuntu mantic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 Ubuntu mantic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-460-server Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-510 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-510 Ubuntu jammy *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-510 Ubuntu mantic *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-520 Ubuntu focal *
Nvidia-graphics-drivers-520 Ubuntu jammy *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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