Race Condition in NVIDIA Linux Resiliency Extension Enables Escalation

Publication date: 2025-12-16

Last updated on: 2026-02-02

Assigner: NVIDIA Corporation

Description

NVIDIA Resiliency Extension for Linux contains a vulnerability in the checkpointing core, where an attacker may cause a race condition. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to information disclosure, data tampering, denial of service, or escalation of privileges.

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Meta Information

Published

2025-12-16

Last Modified

2026-02-02

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-12-16

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-33235

EUVD

EUVD-2025-203812

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
nvidia	resiliency_extension	3.1
nvidia	nvidia_resiliency_extension	to 0.5.0 (inc)
nvidia	nvidia_resiliency_extension	0.5.0

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Exploitability

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CWE ID	Description
CWE-362	The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability exists in the NVIDIA Resiliency Extension for Linux, specifically in its checkpointing core. It is a race condition flaw where concurrent execution using shared resources is improperly synchronized. An attacker exploiting this flaw could cause information disclosure, data tampering, denial of service, or escalate their privileges. [2]

Impact Analysis

If exploited, this vulnerability can lead to serious impacts including unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, alteration or tampering of data, disruption of service (denial of service), and escalation of privileges allowing an attacker to gain higher access rights than intended. [2]

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