Vulnerability · Published May 17, 2022 · Assigned by nvidia

CVE-2022-28191

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software and NVIDIA Cloud Gaming from NVIDIA. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 18% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 81.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (nvidia.ko), where uncontrolled resource consumption can be triggered by an unprivileged regular user, which may lead to denial of service.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12nvidia-graphics-drivers470.129.06-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28191
Debian:13nvidia-graphics-drivers470.129.06-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28191
Debian:14nvidia-graphics-drivers470.129.06-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28191
Debian:12nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470470.129.06-1DEBIAN-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-390390.151-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-418-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-430no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-440no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-450no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server450.191.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-455no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-460no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-470470.129.06-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-470-server470.129.06-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-510510.73.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-510-server510.73.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28191

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
NVIDIA NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software and NVIDIA Cloud Gaming vGPU version 14.x (prior to 14.1), version 13.x (prior to 13.3) and version 11.x (prior 11.8).

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References