CVE-2022-21816 vulnerability in NVIDIA Products
Published on February 7, 2022
NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (nvidia.ko), where a user in the guest OS can cause a GPU interrupt storm on the hypervisor host, leading to a denial of service.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-21816 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is an Authorization Vulnerability?
The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
CVE-2022-21816 has been classified to as an Authorization vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2022-21816
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software and NVIDIA Cloud Gaming Version vGPU version 13.x (prior to 13.2), version 11.x (prior to 11.7) and version 8.x (prior 8.10). is affected by CVE-2022-21816Exploit Probability
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