# Use after free in NVIDIA GeForce and others

CVE record · `CVE-2026-47579`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-47579`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.8 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** nvidia
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-416](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html)
- **Tags:** [Memory corruption](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/memory-corruption.md)
- **Technologies:** [NVIDIA GeForce](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/nvidia-geforce.md) · [NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/nvidia-rtx-quadro-nvs.md) · [NVIDIA Tesla](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/nvidia-tesla.md) · [NVIDIA Guest driver](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/nvidia-guest-driver.md)
- **Published:** 30 Sept 2026
- **Updated:** 1 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: nvidia) at 30 Sept 2026, 15:50 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: GeForce.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 610.60`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: RTX, Quadro, NVS.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 610.88`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: GeForce.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 616.56`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: RTX, Quadro, NVS.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 616.92`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: GeForce.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 582.78 Only GPUs based on the NVIDIA Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPU architectures are affected.`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: RTX, Quadro, NVS.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 582.78`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: Tesla.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 596.86`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: Tesla.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 596.86`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: Tesla.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 616.92`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: Tesla.
  - affected: `All driver versions prior to 610.88`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: Guest driver.
  - affected: `596.36(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.1)`
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: NVIDIA. Product: Guest driver.
  - affected: `582.53(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.5)`
  - Other versions: unaffected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.8 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (nvidia)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0013, the 2nd percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 30 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-47579](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47579)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-47579](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47579)

### References from the CNA

- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47579>
- <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-47579>
- <https://github.com/NVIDIA/product-security/tree/main/2026/5861>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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