What is CVE-2022-21816?

CVE-2022-21816 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Cloud Gaming Virtual GPU, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-02-07.

How severe is CVE-2022-21816?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Auth bypass in NVIDIA Cloud Gaming Virtual GPU

CVE-2022-21816

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.

EPSS: 0.002 (9.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Nvidia Cloud_gaming_virtual_gpu
Nvidia Virtual Gpu Software And Cloud Gaming — versions vGPU version 13.x (prior to 13.2), version 11.x (prior to 11.7) and version 8.x (prior 8.10).
Nvidia Virtual_gpu

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

psirt@nvidia.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-21816?: CVE-2022-21816 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Cloud Gaming Virtual GPU, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-02-07.
How severe is CVE-2022-21816?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.