CVE-2021-1051

published 2021-01-08

CVE-2021-1051: 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…

Priority P3 36 high 8.4 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S C C N I H A H

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.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nvidia	gpu_driver	>= 390 < 392.63	392.63
nvidia	gpu_driver	>= 418 < 427.11	427.11
nvidia	gpu_driver	>= 450 < 452.77	452.77
nvidia	gpu_driver	>= 460 < 461.09	461.09
nvidia	nvidia_gpu_display_driver	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 8.4 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

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