Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessDeliver crafted input/data file to victim
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ExploitUser loads file in NVIDIA Warp
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ExecutionTrigger heap buffer overflow in parser
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ImpactCrash process (denial of service)
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Heap buffer bounds checking
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Execution The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires LOCAL processing of attacker-controlled input by NVIDIA Warp combined with user interaction (UI:R) - the victim must open, import, or run a simulation/data payload that Warp parses, triggering the heap overflow. Limiting factors that reduce real-world risk: (1) no network vector - the attacker must deliver the malicious artifact and get a user to process it locally; (2) impact is confined to denial of service (process crash), with no confirmed path to code execution or data disclosure; (3) exploitation is bounded to environments actually running NVIDIA Warp, a specialized GPU-accelerated Python simulation/graphics framework used mainly by ML and graphics developers rather than general enterprise deployments. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-to-moderate priority issue, consistent with its 4.4 (Medium) CVSS score. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L) is the dominant signal: exploitation is LOCAL (AV:L) and requires user interaction (UI:R), meaning an attacker cannot reach this remotely over a network - the victim must process attacker-supplied data through NVIDIA Warp. Impact is limited to low integrity and low availability with no confidentiality loss, and the description caps the realistic outcome at denial of service (a crash), not code execution. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public POC is present in the provided data, so there is no evidence of active exploitation or weaponization; exploitation status is best described as no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The only mild tension is that PR:N labels this unauthenticated, yet AV:L plus UI:R means practical exploitation still depends on tricking a user/developer into feeding malicious input locally - so the 'unauthenticated' qualifier should not be read as 'remotely exploitable.' Overall this is a high-barrier, low-impact (DoS-only) bug in a developer library, not an urgent patch-now emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious input (e.g., a data file, simulation asset, or array payload) and convinces a developer or researcher to load and process it through NVIDIA Warp on their local machine. When Warp parses the oversized/malformed data, a heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122) corrupts memory and crashes the process, causing denial of service. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, and the local vector plus required user interaction make opportunistic mass exploitation impractical. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 13, 2026
Heap-based buffer overflow in NVIDIA Warp crashes the host process when a user locally opens, imports, or runs a crafted simulation or data payload, producing a denial-of-service condition. The flaw is only reachable with local processing of attacker-controlled input plus user interaction (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L, 4.4 Medium), so it cannot be triggered across the network and no path to code execution or data disclosure has been demonstrated - impact is confined to availability. No public exploit code identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV, so there is no confirmed active exploitation.
RemediationAI
Patch status is not confirmed in the available data - no exact fixed version is given, so consult the NVIDIA product-security advisory (https://github.com/NVIDIA/product-security/tree/main/2026/5901) and the NVD/CVE.org records to identify and deploy the repaired Warp release as soon as NVIDIA publishes it, then re-run any pipelines that process untrusted payloads. Because exploitation hinges on a user opening an attacker-supplied simulation or data file (UI:R) on a host that has Warp installed, the highest-value compensating controls are input trust and isolation: treat all Warp-loadable artifacts (scene/simulation files, serialized arrays, and shared job inputs) as untrusted, and refuse to parse files from unverified sources - the trade-off is reduced convenience for researchers exchanging datasets. Run Warp workloads inside a container or sandbox with strict memory and CPU limits and a non-root service account so a heap overflow aborts the worker rather than the host or the user's interactive session; this costs some GPU/driver passthrough complexity and per-job overhead but converts a crash into a contained failure that can be restarted. Avoid running Warp jobs under a privileged account and separate untrusted-payload execution from build/production environments, and monitor for sudden process aborts during file import as an indicator that an overflow was triggered. There is no network-facing port or endpoint to block, so network filtering offers no meaningful mitigation here.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause is a heap-based buffer overflow (CWE-122), meaning a length or bounds calculation in native parsing/allocation code writes past the end of a heap-allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory and typically aborting the process. NVIDIA Warp is a Python framework for GPU-accelerated simulation, differentiable programming, and graphics that JIT-compiles Python kernels into CUDA or CPU machine code and loads external data structures (arrays, scene/simulation payloads) during execution. The affected component is therefore the native input-parsing path rather than the Python API surface. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:warp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* carries wildcard version and update fields, indicating that NVIDIA has not published a version-bounded fixed baseline in the data supplied and that any Warp release matching the vendor's general product branch may be exposed. Because the vector is AV:L with UI:R and PR:N, an attacker who can convince a user to process a malicious file needs no prior credentials or account on the target system, but does need the payload to reach a machine where Warp is installed and invoked; the S:U scope change is unchanged, so memory corruption is expected to stay within the Warp process/worker rather than escape to the operating system.
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AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Local vector and required user interaction to process crafted input (AV:L/UI:R); no privileges needed to supply data (PR:N); description limits impact to a DoS crash, so C:N/I:N/A:L.
Primary rating from Vendor (nvidia).
CVSS VectorVendor: nvidia
DescriptionCVE.org
NVIDIA Warp contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause a heap-based buffer overflow. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to denial of service.
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
A heap overflow occurs when a program writes data beyond the bounds of a buffer allocated in the heap memory region.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
It was possible to bypass policies configured for Zero Trust Secure Web Gateway by using warp-cli 'set-custom-endpoint'
Command injection in Warp's legacy SSH background command path lets an attacker-controlled remote host inject shell synt
Arbitrary code execution in the Warp agentic development environment (builds 0.2023.10.24.08.03.stable_00 through 0.2026
Arbitrary local file write in Warp terminal (0.2025.03.05.08.02.stable_00 through builds before 0.2026.05.06.15.42.stabl
Using warp-cli command "add-trusted-ssid", a user was able to disconnect WARP client and bypass the "Lock WARP switch" f
Command-execution permission bypass in Warp's default unsandboxed CLI agent profile (versions 0.2025.10.08.08.12.stable_
Command injection in Warp's prompt branch-selector chip lets a crafted Git branch name execute in the victim's shell whe
Clipboard hijacking in the Warp agentic terminal (versions 0.2021.04.25.23.05.stable_00 through 0.2026.05.06.15.42.stabl
Command injection in the Warp agentic development environment (Linux builds 0.2024.02.20.08.01.stable_01 through pre-0.2
OS command injection in Warp's AI Agent code-search tooling allows attacker-controlled inputs to escape read-only search
Due to a hardlink created in the ProgramData folder during the repair process of the software, the installer (MSI) of WA
An unprivileged (non-admin) user can exploit an Improper Access Control vulnerability in the Cloudflare WARP Client for
EUVD-2026-98550
GHSA-j89v-cg2x-2963
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