CVE record · CVE-2021-1096

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where dereferencing a NULL pointer may lead to a system…

CVSS 5.5 MediumEPSS 0.0026 · 18th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: nvidia) at 22 Jul 2021, 04:25 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
NVIDIA NVIDIA GPU Display Driver
  • affected All GPU Driver versions
Identifiers
CVE-2021-1096
CNA
nvidia
Published
22 Jul 2021
Updated
3 Aug 2024

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (nvidia)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0026, the 18th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 22 Jul 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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