Executive Summary

CVE-2026-24189 is a high-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA CUDA-Q that involves an out-of-bounds read in an endpoint. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger this by sending a specially crafted request.

This vulnerability is classified under CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read) and allows an attacker to read memory outside the intended bounds.

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Impact Analysis

Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to denial of service (DoS), causing the affected system or service to become unavailable.

It may also result in information disclosure, where sensitive data could be exposed to the attacker.

The CVSS v3.1 score of 8.2 indicates a high severity with a network attack vector, low attack complexity, no privileges or user interaction required, low confidentiality impact, no integrity impact, and high availability impact.

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Mitigation Strategies

To mitigate the CVE-2026-24189 vulnerability in NVIDIA CUDA-Q, users should update to version 0.14.0 or later, as this version contains the fix for the out-of-bounds read vulnerability.

Evaluating the risk based on your specific configuration is recommended, but applying the update is the primary and immediate step to prevent exploitation.

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Compliance Impact

The provided information does not specify how this vulnerability affects compliance with common standards and regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA.

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