What is CVE-2025-33228?

CVE-2025-33228 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Cuda Toolkit, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2026-01-20.

How severe is CVE-2025-33228?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.

RCE in Nvidia Cuda Toolkit

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 succ…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.012 (64.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.3 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Nvidia Cuda Toolkit — versions All versions prior to CUDA Toolkit 13.1
Nvidia Cuda_toolkit

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

psirt@nvidia.com (US Government Resource, VDB Entry)
psirt@nvidia.com (Third Party Advisory)
psirt@nvidia.com (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-33228?: CVE-2025-33228 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Cuda Toolkit, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2026-01-20.
How severe is CVE-2025-33228?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.