What is CVE-2012-0953?

CVE-2012-0953 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Display Driver, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2020-05-08.

How severe is CVE-2012-0953?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Vulnerability in NVIDIA Display Driver

CVE-2012-0953

A race condition was discovered in the Linux drivers for Nvidia graphics which allowed an attacker to exfiltrate kernel memory to userspace. This issue was fixed in version 295.53.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

Published 2020-05-08 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (14.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 14th percentile — 14.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

NVIDIA Display Driver
NVIDIA Graphics Drivers — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/979373 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-0953?: CVE-2012-0953 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Display Driver, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2020-05-08.
How severe is CVE-2012-0953?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.