CVE-2026-65131
6.0MediumPublished 13 Oct 2026 · NVD status: Awaiting Analysis · AI triage by gemini-3.8-flash
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Impact
- High impact on availability
- Weakness
- CWE-306
Impact
A local attacker with high privileges can trigger a denial of service on the system. They need local shell or container access with elevated privileges to write to the local socket.
Root cause
The platform-connectors component exposes its gRPC health-event interface over a world-writable Unix domain socket without authentication.
Affected systems
NVIDIA NVSentinel for Linux (versions not listed — check the vendor advisory).
CVSS v3.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Fix & remediation
Upgrade NVSentinel to the patched release referenced in NVIDIA advisory 5890 once available; as an interim workaround, restrict file permissions on the platform-connectors Unix domain socket so non-root users cannot write to it.
AI-suggested. Run it in staging first and check it against the vendor advisory. Why?
NVD description
NVIDIA NVSentinel for Linux contains a vulnerability in the platform-connectors component, where the gRPC health-event interface, exposed over a world-writable Unix domain socket, lacks authentication. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.