Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Trust boundary enforcement
|
| Impact | This vulnerability presents moderate real-world risk despite the 5.2 CVSS score. The CVSS vector (AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C) indicates physical attack surface, low complexity exploitation, and requirement for low-level authenticated access; these constraints significantly narrow the threat actor pool to insiders, service technicians, or those with direct hardware manipulation capability. The 5.2 score reflects high confidentiality impact (C:H) but zero integrity or availability impact, limiting exposure to information disclosure scenarios. Absence of CISA KEV status, public POC, or known active exploitation suggests this is a discovered vulnerability without yet-documented weaponization; however, the trusted application exposure (nvluks) could enable persistent attacks if exploited to exfiltrate encryption keys. Priority should be contextualized by deployment environment: air-gapped or tightly controlled Jetson fleets face lower risk than open-access edge devices. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A technician with legitimate low-level access to a Jetson device opens the physical enclosure and boots the device, then interacts with the improperly-guarded nvluks trusted application through low-level device interfaces (e.g., secure monitor calls) to extract encryption keys or sensitive cryptographic material stored in the TEE. This requires physical proximity and authenticated system access, limiting exploitation to insider threats or highly targeted supply-chain scenarios. No public exploit code is documented, making this a theoretical threat requiring either reverse engineering of the nvluks TA or leaked POC code. |
Get an e-mail when this CVE is exploited, patched or re-scored. Free account.
Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Mar 31, 2026
Information disclosure in NVIDIA Jetson Linux affects Xavier, Orin, and Thor series devices due to the nvluks trusted application remaining enabled in initrd. A local attacker with physical access and low-level privileges can exploit this to read sensitive data from the device, as confirmed by CWE-501 (CLS: Malicious Code Not Included in Executable) indicating improper access control to privileged components. CVSS 5.2 reflects the high confidentiality impact but requires physical attack vector and authenticated access; no public exploit or CISA KEV status reported.
RemediationAI
Update NVIDIA Jetson Linux to a patched version that disables the nvluks trusted application in initrd by default or removes its active invocation during early boot. Check the official NVIDIA security advisory (https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5797) for the specific patched Jetson Linux version applicable to your device variant (Xavier, Orin, or Thor series). If immediate patching is unavailable, physically restrict access to devices and disable or constrain TEE-based cryptographic services where operationally feasible. Verify remediation by inspecting the initrd image to confirm nvluks invocation has been disabled.
Affects your stack
Find out whether the stacks and servers you run are on an affected version.
Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.
Technical ContextAI · show details
NVIDIA Jetson devices rely on a trusted execution environment (TEE) with a specialized trusted application (TA) called nvluks for handling encrypted storage and cryptographic operations. The vulnerability stems from CWE-501, indicating that security-critical code (the nvluks TA) lacks proper disablement controls in the initrd boot image, allowing lower-privileged local contexts to interact with sensitive cryptographic or key-management functionality. The affected CPE entries span the Jetson Xavier series (Xavier, Xavier NX, AGX Xavier, Orin variants), Orin series (Orin, Orin Nano, Orin NX, AGX Orin), and Jetson Thor-all of which use the same initrd architecture for early boot trust establishment.
Know when Jetson Xavier Series Jetson Orin Series And Jetson Thor gets its next vulnerability
- Watch products and get an email when something new is published
- Check this CVE against your own stack and servers
- Exploit and PoC references, threat intelligence from 22 sources
No credit card · 7-day full trial
Severity by source
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionNVD
NVIDIA Jetson Linux has a vulnerability in initrd, where the nvluks trusted application is not disabled. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to information disclosure.
Threat Intelligence Overview
How this decision was reached
The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.
What every action level means
SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
EUVD-2026-17512
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
VulDB
GitHub PoC
Exploit-DB