CVE-2022-28186: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. 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, where the product receives input or data, but does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly, which may lead to denial of service or data tampering.

Affected products

  • NVIDIA GPU Display Driver: affected versions not specified
  • NVIDIA Virtual GPU: from 11.0, before 11.8 (fixed in 11.8); from 13.0, before 13.3 (fixed in 13.3); version 14.0 only

Published 2022-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.