NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver (all versions) contains a vulnerability in DirectX drivers, in which a specially crafted shader can cause…

published 2019-08-06 7y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-15260

cvss: 9.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 5.0%; EPSS 5.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits: 0; none known

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver (all versions) contains a vulnerability in DirectX drivers, in which a specially crafted shader can cause an out of bounds access to a shader local temporary array, which may lead to denial of service or code execution.

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Exploit prediction

5.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

talosintelligence.com https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0812 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	10.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

talosintelligence.com /vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0812
exploit, third-party-advisory
nvidia.custhelp.com /app/answers/detail/a_id/4841
vendor-advisory
support.lenovo.com /us/en/product_security/LEN-28096
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-5685
NVD CVE-2019-5685

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