Vulnerability Details
The following section summarizes the vulnerability and CVSS risk assessment.
CVE-2017-6250
NVIDIA GeForce Experience contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA Web Helper.exe, where untrusted script execution may lead to violation of application execution policy and local code execution.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8 CVSS Temporal Score: 8.2 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
NVIDIA’s risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk of your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a security or IT professional to evaluate the risk of your specific configuration.
Affected Products
| Product | OS |
|---|---|
| GeForce Experience 3.x | Windows |
Fixes
The OTA update will automatically apply the fix. You can also download the fix from the NVIDIA GeForce Experience Download page.
| Product | Product Series | OS | First version that includes the fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce Experience | 3.x | Windows | GFE 3.5.0.76 |
Mitigations
None.
Acknowledgements
None.
Revision History
| Revision | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | April 27, 2017 | Initial Release |
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