CVE-2020-5973

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-06-30 · updated 2026-06-17

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).

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 19.10, 20.04
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software: from 8.0 through 8.3; from 9.0 through 9.3; from 10.0 through 10.2

References

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-2/
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-2/

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