CVE-2020-5973

MEDIUM

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager and the guest drivers contain a vulnerability in vGPU plugin, in which there is the potential to execute privileged operations, which may lead to denial of service. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.4), version 9.x (prior to 9.4) and version 10.x (prior to 10.3).

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-2/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (4)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04
nvidia/virtual_gpu 8.0 - 8.3
Published Jun 30, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026