🛡️ CVE-2022-21813 — cloud-gaming-guest

🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-284 NVD
6.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where improper handling of insufficient permissions or privileges may allow an unprivileged local user limited write access to protected memory, which can lead to denial of service.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-21813 is classified as CWE-284: Improper Access Control. The software does not restrict an action to the actors that should be allowed to perform it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-21813 is recorded against 8 packages.

  • cloud-gaming-guest
  • geforce
  • gpu-display-driver
  • nvs
  • quadro
  • rtx
  • tesla
  • virtual-gpu

Timeline and source

Published on 7 February 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvidia.custhelp.com
security.gentoo.org
nvidia.custhelp.com
security.gentoo.org

CVE-2022-21813 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE CWE-284
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-02-07
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cloud-gaming-guest — —
geforce — —
gpu-display-driver — —
nvs — —
quadro — —
rtx — —
tesla — —
virtual-gpu — —

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