Kernel software installed and running inside a Host VM may post improper commands to the GPU Firmware to trigger a GPU register access which can lead to privilege escalation.
CVE-2026-45196
- No confirmed exploitation signals yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- —
- EG Score
- 0.0(none)
- EPSS
- —
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 10, 2026
Last Modified
July 10, 2026
References (1)
- 367425dc-4d06-4041-9650-c2dc6aaa27cehttps://www.imaginationtech.com/gpu-driver-vulnerabilities/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-45196(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 3× in last 7d / 3× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-10 22:19 UTCNVD update
- 2026-07-10 21:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 21:02 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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