Security Notice: NVIDIA GPU and Tegra Hardware - November 2021

This notice is a response to a published research paper on vulnerabilities in Tegra systems on a chip (SOCs).

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Details

This section provides a summary of potential vulnerabilities and their impact. Descriptions use CWE™, and base scores and vectors use CVSS v3.1 standards.

Note:

• Ampere products are not impacted.
• In an environment where the GPU is virtualized (for example, vGPU), you are not impacted.
• If the hypervisor is compromised or you have direct GPU access with bare metal or pass through, Turing, Volta, Pascal or Maxwell products can be exposed.
• Tegra X1, Tegra X1+, Tegra TX2 and Xavier products are impacted.
• In all cases, an attacker requires OS administrative/kernel rights.
  CVE ID |Description|Base Score|Vector
  —|—|—|—
  CVE‑2021‑23201 | NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in an internal microcontroller, which may allow a user with elevated privileges to generate valid microcode by identifying, exploiting, and loading vulnerable microcode. Such an attack could lead to information disclosure, data corruption, or denial of service of the device. The scope may extend to other components. | 7.5 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  CVE‑2021‑23217 | NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller, which may allow a user with elevated privileges to instantiate a DMA write operation only within a specific time window timed to corrupt code execution, which may impact confidentiality, integrity, or availability. The scope impact may extend to other components. | 7.5 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  CVE‑2021‑34400 | NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller which may allow a user with elevated privileges to gain access to information from unscrubbed memory, which may lead to information disclosure. | 4.1 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  CVE‑2021‑34399 | NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller which may allow a user with elevated privileges to gain access to information from unscrubbed registers, which may lead to information disclosure. | 4.1 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  CVE‑2021‑23219 | NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller, which may allow a user with elevated privileges to access protected information by identifying, exploiting, and loading vulnerable microcode. Such an attack may lead to information disclosure. | 4.1 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  CVE‑2021‑1125 | NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller which may allow a user with elevated privileges to corrupt program data. | 4.1 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
  CVE‑2021‑1105 | NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller which may allow a user with elevated privileges to access debug registers during runtime, which may lead to information disclosure. | 4.1 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  CVE‑2021‑1088 | NVIDIA GPU and Tegra hardware contain a vulnerability in the internal microcontroller which may allow a user with elevated privileges to utilize debug mechanisms with insufficient access control, which may lead to information disclosure. | 4.1 | AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

The NVIDIA risk assessment is based on an average of risk across a diverse set of installed systems and may not represent the true risk to your local installation. NVIDIA recommends consulting a security or IT professional to evaluate the risk to your specific configuration.

Affected NVIDIA Products

Note: Ampere products are not affected

CVE IDs by Hardware Architecture

CVE IDs	Hardware Architecture Type*
CVE‑2021‑1125	Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Tegra X1, Tegra X1+, Tegra TX2, Xavier
CVE‑2021‑23217	Maxwell, GP100, Tegra X1, Tegra X1+, Tegra TX2
CVE‑2021‑23219	Maxwell (except GM206), Tegra X1, Tegra X1+
CVE‑2021‑23201
CVE‑2021‑34400
CVE‑2021‑34399
CVE‑2021‑1105
CVE‑2021‑1088	Turing, Volta, Pascal, Maxwell, Tegra X1, Tegra X1+, Tegra TX2, Xavier

*These vulnerabilities impact both Windows and Linux operating systems

The following table lists NVIDIA products affected.

Product Category	Hardware Architecture Type*	Impacted	Notes
GPU	Turing, Volta, Pascal, Maxwell	Yes
GPU	Kepler	No	Kepler does not contain security features impacted by these vulnerabilities
GPU	Ampere	No
Tegra SoC	Tegra X1, Tegra X1+, Tegra TX2, Xavier	Yes

*See the table below for the product names corresponding to the architecture for each segment.

Affected NVIDIA Products by Hardware Architecture

Consumer and Commercial Client (GeForce, NVIDIA RTX) GPU Solutions

Hardware Architecture	Product Name
Turing	GeForce RTX 20-series, GeForce GTX 16-series, Titan RTX
Volta	Titan V Series
Pascal (except P100)	GeForce GTX 10-series, Titan X, Titan Xp
Maxwell, Pascal P100	GeForce 900-series, GeForce GTX Titan X
Kepler	GeForce 600-series, GeForce 700-series, GTX Titan, GTX Titan Black, GTX Titan Z

Data Center and Edge (Tesla) GPU Solutions

Hardware Architecture	Product Name
Turing	NVIDIA T4
Volta	Tesla V100 (16GB, 32GB), Tesla V100S, HGX-2
Pascal (except GP100)	Tesla P40, Tesla P6, Tesla P4
Maxwell, Pascal GP100	Tesla P100 (12GB, 16GB) Tesla M_xx_, Tesla M_xxxx_
Kepler	Tesla Kxx/Kxxx, GRID Kx/Kxxx

Professional Visualization (Quadro/NVIDIA RTX) GPU Solutions

Hardware Architecture	Product Name
Turing	NVIDIA Quadro RTX_xxxx_, NVIDIA Quadro T-series, NVIDIA T-series
Volta	NVIDIA Quadro GV100
Pascal (except GP100)	NVIDIA Quadro P-series (P_xx_/P_xxx_)
Maxwell, Pascal GP100	NVIDIA Quadro M-series (M_xx_/M_xxx_)
Kepler	NVIDIA Quadro K-series (K_xx_/K_xxx_)

Jetson Products

Hardware Architecture	Product Name
Xavier	Jetson Xavier Series, Jetson Xavier NX
Tegra TX2	Jetson TX2 Series
Tegra X1	Jetson Nano Series, Jetson TX1

Shield TV

Hardware Architecture	Product Name
Tegra X1, Tegra X1+	SHIELD TV - All Versions

DGX Systems

Hardware Architecture	Product Name
Volta	NVIDIA DGX-1 (with V100), NVIDIA DGX-2, NVIDIA DGX Station
Pascal GP100	NVIDIA DGX-1 (with P100)

NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation

Hardware Architecture	Product Name
Turing	NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation

Mitigations

NVIDIA recommends following security best practices for managing access to computer systems. Limit administrative and kernel access to trusted users only.