{"id":"CVE-2026-16478","kind":"vulnerability","aliases":["CVE-2026-16478"],"related":[],"title":"pardus-nvidia-installer: permissive input list allows privilege escalation","description":"Permissive list of allowed inputs vulnerability in TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Software Technologies Research Institute pardus-nvidia-installer allows Privilege Escalation.\n\nThis issue affects pardus-nvidia-installer: before 2.0.1.","summary":"pardus-nvidia-installer, a driver installer from TÜBİTAK BİLGEM for the Pardus Linux distribution, accepts inputs that are not properly restricted. 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