CVE-2022-21815: NVIDIA Cloud Gaming Guest

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% 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 private IOCTLs where a NULL pointer dereference in the kernel, created within user mode code, may lead to a denial of service in the form of a system crash.

Affected products

  • NVIDIA Cloud Gaming Guest: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA Geforce: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA GPU Display Driver: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA Nvs: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA Quadro: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA Rtx: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA Studio: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA Tesla: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA Virtual GPU: affected versions not specified

Published 2022-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.