NVIDIA NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVE-2021-1051
HIGH 8.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.26 % · percentile 18 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
nvidia
NVD status
Modified

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which a local user can get elevated privileges to modify display configuration data, which may result in denial of service of the display.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Hnvidia
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@nvidia.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
NVIDIA · NVIDIA GPU Display Driveraffected All

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD