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Vulnerability · Published May 26, 2026 · Assigned by nvidia

CVE-2025-33221

Medium 4.4

In plain English

A medium-severity improper input validation in GeForce from NVIDIA. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 7% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 93.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver, where a user could cause an incorrect permission assignment for a critical resource. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to data tampering and denial of service.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-390no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-418-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-430no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-440no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-450no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-450-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-455no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-460no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-470no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-470no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-470-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-470-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-510no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-515no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-515-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-520no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-530no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-535535.309.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-535535.309.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-535-server535.309.01-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-535-server535.309.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-535-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-535-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-545no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-550no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-550no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-550no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-550no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-550-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-550-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-550-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-550-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-560no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-560no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-565-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-565-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-570no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-570no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-570no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-570no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-570no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-570-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-570-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-570-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-570-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-570-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-575no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-575no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-575no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-575no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-575-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-575-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-580580.159.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-580580.159.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-580580.159.03-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-580580.159.03-0ubuntu0.26.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-580-server580.159.03-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-580-server580.159.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-580-server580.159.03-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-580-server580.159.03-0ubuntu0.26.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-590no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-590no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-590no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-590-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-590-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-590-serverno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-595595.71.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-595595.71.05-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-595595.71.05-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-595595.71.05-0ubuntu0.26.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-595-server595.71.05-0ubuntu0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-595-server595.71.05-0ubuntu0.24.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:25.10nvidia-graphics-drivers-595-server595.71.05-0ubuntu0.25.10.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSnvidia-graphics-drivers-595-server595.71.05-0ubuntu0.26.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
NVIDIA GeForce All driver versions prior to 595.71.05
NVIDIA GeForce All driver versions prior to 580.159.03
NVIDIA GeForce All driver versions prior to 535.309.01
NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS All driver versions prior to 595.71.05
NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS All driver versions prior to 580.159.03
NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS All driver versions prior to 535.309.01
NVIDIA Tesla All driver versions prior to 595.71.05
NVIDIA Tesla All driver versions prior to 580.159.03
NVIDIA Tesla All driver versions prior to 535.309.01
NVIDIA Guest driver 595.58.03(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0)
NVIDIA Guest driver 580.126.09(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4)
NVIDIA Guest driver 535.288.01(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13)
NVIDIA Guest driver 595.58.03(All versions up to and including the March 2026 release)
NVIDIA GeForce All driver versions prior to 596.36
NVIDIA GeForce All driver versions prior to 582.53 Only GPUs based on the NVIDIA Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPU architectures are affected.
NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS All driver versions prior to 596.36
NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS All driver versions prior to 582.53
NVIDIA NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS All driver versions prior to 539.72
NVIDIA Tesla All driver versions prior to 596.36
NVIDIA Tesla All driver versions prior to 582.53
NVIDIA Tesla All driver versions prior to 539.72
NVIDIA Guest driver 595.97(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.0)
NVIDIA Guest driver 582.16(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.4)
NVIDIA Guest driver 539.64(All versions prior to and including vGPU 16.13)

Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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