CVE-2021-1096: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape where dereferencing a NULL pointer may lead to a system crash.

Affected products

• NVIDIA GPU Display Driver: from 427.33, before 427.48 (fixed in 427.48); from 452.96, before 453.10 (fixed in 453.10); from 462.31, before 462.96 (fixed in 462.96)

Published 2021-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.