Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-23217 - Unspecified vulnerability in Nvidia products

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
HIGH
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
high complexity
nvidia

Summary

NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller, which may allow a user with elevated privileges to instantiate a DMA write operation only within a specific time window timed to corrupt code execution, which may impact confidentiality, integrity, or availability. The scope impact may extend to other components.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Hardware
Nvidia
65
OS
Linux
1
OS
Microsoft
1