CVE-2026-65118 — Infra Controller
HIGHCVE-2026-65118 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-295 vulnerability in nvidia infra controller. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
NVIDIA Infrastructure Controller for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause improper certificate validation. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead…
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-65118.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2026-65118 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 380,526 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
NVIDIA Infrastructure Controller for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause improper certificate validation. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to information disclosure, data tampering, and denial of service.
Affected Products
infra controllernvidiaDetection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every nvidia infra controller deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the nvidia infra controller security patch or hotfix for CVE-2026-65118 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2026-65118 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.