CVE-2025-33221 Privilege escalation in GeForce
A local user can exploit incorrect permission assignments in the NVIDIA kernel driver to tamper with data and cause denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-33221?
CVE-2025-33221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver, published on 26 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-33221?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Gpu Display Driver.
How do I fix CVE-2025-33221?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-33221 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-33221 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Nvidia Gpu Display Driver
- CVE-2026-24187 Use after free in GeForce
- CVE-2023-0184 Privilege escalation in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver
- CVE-2022-34671 Memory corruption in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows
- CVE-2022-28181 Memory corruption in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver
- CVE-2022-28182 Memory corruption in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mc8c-mh26-q8q7, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-33221.