Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-65160 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-65160 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-65160?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.5, published 3 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- NVIDIA nvJPEG.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-65160?
- 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-2026-65160 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-65160?
- Check whether you run Nvidia nvJPEG. 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 is a divide-by-zero condition in the nvJPEG library that can be triggered by a specially crafted JPEG image. An attacker can exploit this by providing a malicious JPEG file to an application using nvJPEG, resulting in a crash and denial of service. The attack requires only the ability to provide input (a JPEG file) to a vulnerable application.
Affected products
- NVIDIA nvJPEG
Timeline
- 2026-11-03: disclosed