CVE-2016-2556: NVIDIA GPU Driver r340

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Escape interface in the Kernel Mode Driver layer in the NVIDIA GPU graphics driver R340 before 341.95 and R352 before 354.74 on Windows improperly allows access to restricted functionality, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GPU Driver r340: up to and including 431.61
• NVIDIA GPU Driver r352: up to and including 353.82

Published 2016-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.