🛡️ CVE-2022-21821 — cuda-toolkit

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1285 NVD

7.8

CVSS Score

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Description

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit SDK contains an integer overflow vulnerability in cuobjdump.To exploit this vulnerability, a remote attacker would require a local user to download a specially crafted, corrupted file and locally execute cuobjdump against the file. Such an attack may lead to remote code execution that causes complete denial of service and an impact on data confidentiality and integrity.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-21821 is classified as CWE-1285: Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input. The product receives input that is expected to specify an index, position, or offset into an indexable resource such as a buffer or file, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the specified index/position/offset has the required properties.

Affected software

CVE-2022-21821 is recorded against 1 package.

cuda-toolkit (fixed in 11.6.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 March 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
nvidia.custhelp.com

CVE-2022-21821 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 7.8

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE CWE-1285

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2022-03-29

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
cuda-toolkit	—	11.6.2

References

Mitigation, Vendor Advisory https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5334

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