CVE-2021-1092: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel application where it is susceptible to a Windows file system…

PriorityP425high7.1CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCNIHAH

EPSS

0.26%

17.5th percentile

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.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 427.33 < 427.48	427.48
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 452.96 < 453.10	453.10
nvidia	gpu_display_driver	>= 462.31 < 462.96	462.96
nvidia	nvidia_gpu_display_driver	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.03.6LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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