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01 Record

CVE-2021-34402

NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA NVDEC, where a user with high privileges might be able to read from or write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of

MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: nvidia
CNA base score6.7 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

02 Description

NVIDIA Tegra kernel driver contains a vulnerability in NVIDIA NVDEC, where a user with high privileges might be able to read from or write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation
Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision
Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability
0.28% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 20.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score
6.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status
Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published
2022-01-18 18:05Z4 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-04 00:12Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2021-06-09
Assigning CNA
nvidia
Record state
PUBLISHED
Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.7)
CNA CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
  • CWE-284Improper Access ControlPillar
  • CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
  • CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
  • CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')Base
Data version
5.1
Document digest
308b16e871df9c2dc708e0c000838ccc71ae1aae7e42e58442a07be921f4ddc5

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
NVIDIASHIELD TVAll versions prior to SE 9.0—

06 References