CVE-2021-1051: NVIDIA GPU Driver

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape in which a local user can get elevated privileges to modify display configuration data, which may result in denial of service of the display.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GPU Driver: from 390, before 392.63 (fixed in 392.63); from 418, before 427.11 (fixed in 427.11); from 450, before 452.77 (fixed in 452.77); from 460, before 461.09 (fixed in 461.09)

Published 2021-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.