CVE-2019-5666: NVIDIA GPU Driver

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) create context command DDI DxgkDdiCreateContext in which the product uses untrusted input when calculating or using an array index, but the product does not validate or incorrectly validates the index to ensure the index references a valid position within the array, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges.

Affected products

  • NVIDIA GPU Driver: affected versions not specified

Published 2019-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.