CVE-2020-5983

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-10-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin and the host driver kernel module, in which the potential exists to write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of the frame buffer memory allocated to guest operating systems, which may lead to denial of service or information disclosure. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Affected products

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager: from 8.0 before 8.5; from 10.0 before 10.4; 11.0 — fixed in 10.4, 8.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager 10.4, 8.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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