Microcontroller Vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU and Tegra Hardware
CVE-2021-23219
4.1MEDIUM
Key Information:
- Vendor
Nvidia
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 20 November 2021
What is CVE-2021-23219?
NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware are impacted by a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller. This flaw potentially allows users with elevated privileges to identify, exploit, and load vulnerable microcode, leading to the unauthorized access of protected information. The implications of such an attack can result in information disclosure, which may compromise sensitive data handled by these devices.
Affected Version(s)
NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware Maxwell (except GM206), Tegra X1, Tegra X1+