NVIDIA NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVE-2021-1092
HIGH 7.1

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 NVIDIA Control Panel application where it is susceptible to a Windows file system symbolic link attack where an unprivileged attacker can cause the applications to overwrite privileged files, resulting in potential denial of service or data loss.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Hnvidia
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · psirt@nvidia.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 3.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
NVIDIA · NVIDIA GPU Display Driveraffected All GPU Driver versions

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