CVE-2021-1093

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in firmware where the driver contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary, and may lead to denial of service or system crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-1093

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202107-58

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed470.57.02-1
debian debianbookwormfixed460.91.03-1
debian debianbullseyefixed460.91.03-1
debian debianforkyfixed460.91.03-1
debian debiansidfixed460.91.03-1
debian debiantrixiefixed460.91.03-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.