CVE-2020-5987

HIGH

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin in which guest-supplied parameters remain writable by the guest after the plugin has validated them, which may lead to the guest being able to pass invalid parameters to plugin handlers, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 16.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-459
Status published
Products (2)
nvidia/virtual_gpu_manager 11.0
nvidia/virtual_gpu_manager 8.0 - 8.5
Published Oct 02, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026