NVIDIA Display Driver Kernel Permission Flaw (CVE-2025-33221)
CVE-2025-33221 Published on May 26, 2026
NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause an incorrect permission assignment for a critical resource. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to data tampering and denial of service.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-33221 can be exploited with local system access, and requires 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
Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-33221
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Affected Versions
NVIDIA GeForce:- Version All driver versions prior to 595.71.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 580.159.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.309.01 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 595.71.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 580.159.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.309.01 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 595.71.05 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 580.159.03 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 535.309.01 is affected.
- Version 595.58.03(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0) is affected.
- Version 580.126.09(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4) is affected.
- Version 535.288.01(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13) is affected.
- Version 595.58.03(All versions up to and including the March 2026 release) is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.36 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 582.53 Only GPUs based on the NVIDIA Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPU architectures are affected. is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.36 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 582.53 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 539.72 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 596.36 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 582.53 is affected.
- Version All driver versions prior to 539.72 is affected.
- Version 595.97(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0) is affected.
- Version 582.16(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4) is affected.
- Version 539.64(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13) is affected.
Exploit Probability
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