Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-1091

High

Published: 22 July 2021

Published
22 July 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0011 29.7th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-1091 is a high-severity Link Following (CWE-59) vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 29.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

NVIDIA GPU Display driver for Windows contains a vulnerability where an unprivileged user can create a file hard link that causes the driver to overwrite a file that requires elevated privilege to modify, which could lead to data loss or…

more

denial of service.

CWE(s)
CWE-59

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

nvidia
gpu display driver
427.33 — 427.48 · 452.96 — 453.10 · 462.31 — 462.96

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References