# CVE-2022-28186: Denial of service in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

> Attackers can cause denial of service or data tampering via improper input validation in the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver kernel mode layer.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 May 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rf6g-3x67-92j3, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-28186

## What is CVE-2022-28186?

CVE-2022-28186 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver, published on 17 May 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler for DxgkDdiEscape, where the product receives input or data, but does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly, which may lead to denial of service or data tampering.

Weakness: CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28186?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Nvidia Gpu Display Driver, Nvidia Virtual Gpu.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-28186?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-28186 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-28186 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28186 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver

- [CVE-2026-24187](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-24187/): Use after free in GeForce (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-0184](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-0184/): Privilege escalation in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2022-34671](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-34671/): Memory corruption in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2022-28181](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-28181/): Memory corruption in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2022-28182](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-28182/): Memory corruption in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver (high 8.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-28186 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-28186 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver, published on 17 May 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28186 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Nvidia Gpu Display Driver. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-28186/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-28186/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28186
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28186
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-28186

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-28186/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.