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CVE-2020-5973 json

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager and the guest drivers contain a vulnerability in vGPU plugin, in which there is the potential to execute privile…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-27127

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 34%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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).

Patch / fix

  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 390.138-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 390.138-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 440.100-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 440.100-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-5973

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Exploit prediction

0.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • NVIDIA NVIDIA vGPU Software

References

Sources

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