Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-33228

Title: OS Command Injection in NVIDIA Nsight Systems gfx_hotspot recipe

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2025-33228.

CWE Category CWE-78
Published Date Jan 20, 2026
Modified Date Feb 02, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.3 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.19%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-33228: NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string to the process_nsys_rep_cli.py script if the script is invoked manually. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to code execution, escalation of privileges, data tampering, denial of service, and information disclosure.

Impacted Vendors

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nvidia 1

Reference Links

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-33228 https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5755 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-33228
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-33228 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.