Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-47596 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-47596 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-47596?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7, published 30 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Nvidia GPU Display Driver <UNKNOWN>.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-47596?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-47596 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-47596?
- Check whether you run Nvidia GPU Display Driver at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in the kernel mode layer of the GPU display driver where memory permissions are not properly preserved, allowing unprivileged local users to write to read-only memory regions. Successful exploitation enables arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation from user-space to kernel privileges.
Affected products
- NVIDIA GPU Display Driver <UNKNOWN>
Timeline
- 2026-09-30: disclosed